Nathan Dal Bon, the public servant who set up the federal government system to give community housing providers access to cheaper development funding, will next month start as chief executive of ACT-based provider Community Housing Canberra.

Mr Dal Bon, inaugural head of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation – renamed Housing Australia last year after its role widened – also oversaw the first funding round of the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund in which his new employer submitted nine projects.