The future of Scotland's urban housing stock will be the focus of the latest Geddes Research Seminar, to be held at the University of Dundee on Wednesday February 20.
The introduction of the Housing Scotland Act 2001 could mean changes for tenants throughout Scotland's cities as local authorities are encouraged to hand over their housing stock to housing associations.
As several local authorities, such as those in Glasgow and Aberdeen, ballot tenants over the issue of the transfer of housing stock, others, including Dundee's, have yet to decide how the new Act will affect its tenants.
Two speakers have been invited to Dundee to shed light on the background to and implications of the new Act.
David Orr from the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations will give a seminar entitled "Local Authority and Housing Association Perspectives". David spent a year's secondment at the Scottish Executive while the Housing Scotland Act 2001 was being passed.
Rita Stenhouse is from Community Scotland, the regulatory body brought in under the Act. She will discuss Community Scotland's role in overseeing the transfer of housing stock.
The seminar will take place between 2pm and 4pm at the Management and Consumer Studies Lecture Theatre, Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone Faculty of Art & Design, University of Dundee.
This is the fourth seminar in the School of Town Planning's second annual Geddes Research Seminar Series. The event is named after "the father of town planning" Patrick Geddes who was a professor of Botany at the University at the turn of the century.