CPREvents1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference (AHC) 2022: Making Housing Affordable, Inclusive, and Resilient
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1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference (AHC) 2022: Making Housing Affordable, Inclusive, and Resilient
Date and Time
November 8, 2022
- November 9, 2022
11:30 am to 3:30 pm
Location
Virtual
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The Scaling City Institutions for India (SCI-FI) Initiative, Centre for Policy Research is pleased to invite you to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference (AHC) 2022 taking place on 8–9 November. This online knowledge-sharing event aims to consolidate and promote solutions for making housing affordable, inclusive, and resilient in Asia and the Pacific.
AHC 2022 features high-level technical sessions that will bring out the synergistic interplay of three critical factors to achieving affordable, inclusive, and resilient housing: (1) access to affordable and well-located land, (2) inclusive and effective city planning, and (3) availability of affordable and sustainable housing finance. You may find discussions in these cross-cutting issues relevant and useful to your work.
The conference is free of charge and is now open for registration.
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Click here to view detailed agenda.
Click here to view list of speakers and panelists.
Click hereto view session recordings and presentations.
Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues and others who may potentially benefit from this event. For questions, please contact the AHC 2022 Secretariat by sending an email to asiahousingconference@adb.org.
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January 17th, 2024
On 10th January 2024, CPR received a notice from the Ministry of Home Affairs cancelling its FCRA status. The basis of this decision is incomprehensible and disproportionate, and some of the reasons given challenge the very basis of the functioning of a research institution. This includes the publication on our website of policy reports emanating from our research being equated with current affairs programming.
During the tenure of our suspension, we sought and obtained interim redress from the honourable Delhi High Court and will continue to seek recourse in all avenues possible.
This cancellation comes after a decision to suspend the FCRA status in February 2023. These actions followed an Income Tax “survey” that took place in September 2022. The actions have had a debilitating impact on the institution’s ability to function by choking all sources of funding. This has undermined the institution’s ability to pursue its well established objective of producing high quality, globally recognised research on policy matters, which it has been recognised for over its 50 years’ existence. During this time the institution has been home to some of the country’s most distinguished academics, diplomats and policymakers.
CPR firmly reiterates that it is in complete compliance with the law, and has been cooperating fully and exhaustively at every step of the process. We remain steadfast in our belief that this matter will be resolved in line with constitutional values and guarantees.