Alan Johnson
Alan is the Co-director of Child Poverty Action Group and the housing and social policy spokesperson
Alan currently works as a social policy analyst for The Salvation Army's Social Policy & Parliamentary Unit.
In his spare time he is a community activist in South Auckland where he is active as an administrator in local sports clubs and as a school trustee. He is also a trustee of the Auckland Community Housing Trust and Chairman of Community Housing Aotearoa.
He has an academic background in town planning and economics and has been involved in Auckland local government for over 20 years both as a politician and bureaucrat.
Alan was a contributor to CPAG's recent flagship report Left Further Behind: How policies fail the poorest children in New Zealand (2012) including being the author for the chapter on Housing and co-author of the chapter on Early Childhood Education.
