After a long career in social housing, leading a number of housing associations and the Housing Corporation, as CEO, and as a chair and vice chair of two of London’s g15 largest social housing providers as well  Steve took over as CEO of St Mungo’s in July 2020, having also been chair and Trustee of the social justice charity, Commonweal.

St Mungo’s is a leading homelessness charity, and each year provides services to almost 33,000 clients, and over 3,500 clients each day. During the pandemic the charity ran 32 hotels, supporting an additional 4,000 clients, working with local authority and health partner to provide support and accommodation to those who were rough sleeping or at risk of rough sleeping, across London and the south east and south west.

St Mungo’s acted as secretariat to the independent Kerslake Commission on Homelessness and rough sleeping, which made a number of ambitious but practical recommendations on how rough sleeping could be ended for good - https://www.commissiononroughsleeping.org/.

He was awarded a CBE in 2019, for his services to housing and diversity.