Danny Friedman is a housing and social policy researcher and practitioner, with a thirty year career working in housing advice agencies, housing associations, local authorities, representative bodies and social research firms.  This included a period as Head of Research and Director of Policy at the National Housing Federation.  He now runs his own research network.  He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, and the Housing Studies Association,  and is particularly interested in issues around resident satisfaction, housing needs, housing markets, homelessness, young people, people with disabilities and BAME communities.