ABOUT TONY
Tony is a social and affordable housing specialist who has consulted, researched and published in Australasia and internationally. He built Housing Action Network into a leading practice for community housing consultancy services across Australia and New Zealand, helping many large and small housing providers on bidding for tenders, strategy, board facilitation and policy lobbying.
For twenty years Tony worked in Investment Banking, latterly as an Associate Director of Rothschild’s Bank in London then Sydney. He joined Sydney University’s Planning Research Centre in 2005 as Research Policy Manager, and completed his PhD in 2009 which reviewed approaches to building the capacity of the community housing sector in Australia, Britain and the United States. From 2010 Tony worked for Elton Consulting, before establishing Housing Action Network in 2012 where his role is now as President.
Tony has published internationally on developing the community housing sector, public housing estate renewal and financing affording housing. He is co-author with Hal Pawson and David Mullins of After council housing: Britain’s new social landlords (2010), sole author of Sustaining heritage: giving the past a future (2007), Navigating change: a history of Compass Housing (2015), Champions of change: Shelter NSW, community activism and transforming NSW's housing system (2018) and An Aboriginal voice in housing: the history of SEARMS and southeast NSW Aboriginal community controlled housing (2023).
Tony holds a BA and MA from Cambridge University, an MBA from the University of Manchester and an MA and PhD from Sydney University. He is a former President of the Australasian Housing Institute, and served on the board of Shelter NSW as Treasurer. Tony is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), Treasurer of Kiama Historical Society and a member of Kiama Council’s Infrastructure and Liveability Advisory Committee.
An article on Tony was published in the August 2018 edition of HousingWorks