He has carried out innovative research into alternative financing approaches to expanding provision of affordable housing in Australia. He is the author or co-author of over one hundred research reports, books and journal articles in housing and urban studies.
Mike has advised policy makers at all levels of government. He was a member of the Federal Government’s National Advisory Committee on Housing and Urban Development, a fellow of the Don Dunstan Foundation and a member of the external experts’ panel to the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment.
Mike was a director and Chair of the Board of Housing Choices Australia. He served on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals, including Housing Theory and Society and Urban Policy and Research, and is a regular media contributor on matters of economic, social and environmental policy. He has been a visiting fellow at Birmingham, Cambridge, Lund and Rutgers Universities in a long academic career.
