Bob Jordan

Biographie: Bob Jordan has over 20 years’ experience in housing policy, leading national efforts to increase housing supply and improve affordability in Ireland. As former CEO of the government's national Housing Agency and Special Adviser to the Minister for Housing, he worked across government, local aurhorities, housing associations, and the construction sector to expand social and affordable housing, including the introduction of cost rental housing. He also led the national rollout of the Housing First programme to address rough sleeping and long-term homelessness. He currently chairs an international board advising the Czech State Investment Promotion Fund on an ambitious national affordable rental initiative. A Senior Research Fellow at University College Dublin’s Geary Institute for Public Policy, his research work focuses on systemic approaches to the delivery of affordable housing and solutions to homelesness. Bob also contributes to CaraDem, a new Irish-led democracy initiative founded by two former Deputy Prime Ministers.