The Great Australian Housing Challenge

It's Not A Conference —
It's Proof!

Three days of live projects — real homes, real methods, real numbers — showing that attainable, mortgage-free housing isn't a theory. It's built.

YOUR TICKET STARTS THE DAY YOU BUY IT

The three days in August 2027 are the finish line, not the whole of it.

Each project carries a digital magazine of its own, with the real numbers and the real timeframes, and your ticket includes a 15-minute conversation with Kevin, yours to arrange whenever you want it.

Join whenever you like and nothing is missed. Everything already filmed is waiting for you, so a later start does not buy you less. By the time you walk into the Convention Centre you know the projects inside out.

THE FIVE PROJECTS YOU WILL FOLLOW

Real builds with real money in them. You follow all five from wherever each one stands today, right through to the event.

One Street in Australia. A single ordinary street, reimagined — and every objection, covenant and planning rule standing in the way. This is the 360 Collection: own your own suite.

Living Mortgage Free. A home where the rent carries the mortgage. Roger and Robyn's actual build figures, and an open invitation to the next family to do it on camera.

Women 4 Homes. Five women in distress, housed. More on this one below.

Village Living. Five small homes around one shared kitchen — the rooming house taken apart and rebuilt as a village.

Subdivision — two rooming houses. One title split into two, costed both ways, with a rooming house on each. The most repeatable deal of the five.

Each project has its own documents, its own numbers and its own film crew. Not all of them run to the same clock, and you see every one of them through.

HOUSING FIVE WOMEN WHO HAD NOWHERE TO GO

Kevin is building a home for five women over fifty with nowhere left to go — safe, self-contained, a place of their own. It is backed by investors who expect a proper return, and who chose this project because of who it houses.

That is the proof that it does not have to be charity. Closing the attainable gap and paying the people who fund it are not competing aims. Kevin calls it beneficial altruism, and it is the test every project here has to pass.

Housing that only works on goodwill lasts as long as the goodwill does. Housing that pays its way keeps going — and then does it again on the next block.

You will meet the people doing it.

BUSES, OR DRIVE YOURSELF

You choose on the Friday night. Buses leave the Convention Centre at 8:00am and are back by 5:00pm — or take your own car and follow the maps and running order set by Kevin and the Future Housing Taskforce, so the day runs the way you want it.

Every stop is catered. Either way you are back at the Convention Centre for the Meet the Speakers and Developers cocktail from 6:30pm — everyone you met on site, in one room, with a drink and a day's worth of questions.

The sites are confirmed closer to the date, and the line-up grows as projects come on. Every addition is included in your ticket.

THE INVESTOR CASE, IN ONE LINE OF ARITHMETIC

Every number we publish is built from two rules you can check on the back of an envelope.

$425 a room a week. Fifty weeks a year. That is $21,250 a room, a year. Count the separately let rooms, multiply, then divide by what the project cost you — house and land included. There is no step you cannot see.

The whole argument stands in one driveway. One ordinary block laid out as five separate tenancies collects $2,125 a week. The same block built the conventional way for one household collects about $800. Same street, same land, same builder.

The strongest of the five on that arithmetic is the subdivision — one title split into two with a rooming house on each side, ten separately let rooms, $212,500 a year in gross rent at a 9.9% gross return. At the other end, entry to the collection starts at $295,000 for a single owned room.

Gross means before finance, rates, insurance, management and maintenance. Project costs are estimates and your own block will move them, which is why a feasibility comes before a figure. We would rather give you the arithmetic than the headline.

WHO IS IN THE ROOM

Investors looking to lift what their portfolio earns in a year. Builders, planners and council staff. First home buyers. Owner-occupiers who want their own mortgage carried. Anyone who thinks the way we house people in this country could be done better, and would rather see it done than hear about it.

You do not need to be an investor to come.

THE THREE DAYS

Friday 20 August, 5:00pm–9:00pm — The Showcase. Cabaret seating, eight to a table, tapas and drinks brought to you all evening. Every project introduced before you see it, by the people who built it. By nine you know which bus you are on, or that you are driving.

Saturday 21 August, 8:00am–5:00pm — The Live Tour. Out to the sites, back by five, then the cocktail event from 6:30pm.

Sunday 22 August, through to 5:00pm — The Decision. The speaker line-up builds to a major question-and-answer session — the country in the room, weighing the fix and choosing. The weekend finishes in small groups: you, and the owner of the project you could not stop thinking about. Costs, timing, approvals, and what they would do differently.

Every day is catered — morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea, with Friday's tapas and Saturday's cocktails included.

WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY BUYING

Not three days. Ten months.

From the day you book you are inside five live builds — the plans, the costs, the council knockbacks, the numbers that moved and why. You ask the people doing the work while they are doing it. You see the same material we work from ourselves.

Ten months of that. By August you are not an attendee — you are part of the tribe, and part of a movement that is changing how this country houses people.

$1,295. Early Bird $995 until 31 March 2027 — 100 only.