Jon Swain

Manager, Homelessness, City of Sydney

Jon Swain is the Manager Homelessness at the City of Sydney and Jon has led Homelessness, Mental Health and Environmental teams at Local, State and NGO level for the past 16 years.  Jon oversees direct funding of Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS), service coordination, business and community education, policy design, public space management and coordination of emergency responses. Jon’s current focus is developing short/ long-term solutions for people experiencing homelessness against extreme weather events and is currently involved in the Mobile Cooling Hub pilot led by St Vincent Health and Sydney University.