James is Assistant Director of Housing at Rotherham Council, which owns and manages 20,000 council homes. James is also responsible for Rotherham’s homelessness services and the Council’s housing development programme, which has delivered 500 new council homes since 2018.
Prior to joining Rotherham Council, James was a senior civil servant in DLUHC where he set up the Local Authority Housing Fund; and before that he spent a decade working on housing policy and delivery at the Greater London Authority including setting up the Building Council Homes for Londoners programme.