Pino Monaco has been elected the national president of the Housing Industry Association, the voice of the Australian residential building industry.

Monaco has been involved with the HIA for more than 30 years, during which he has served on various committees and task forces at both a state and national level. He has been a long-serving member of the WA Regional Executive Committee.

Following two years as vice president, Monaco was president for the HIA WA region between 2005 and 2007, after which he joined HIA’s national board of directors.

He succeeds former National President, Ross Lang, who completed his term on 25 May this year.

Monaco praised Lang's commitment over the last two years.

“Ross’ commitment and drive to serve as National President of HIA’s Board of Directors over the past two years has been a legacy he can be proud of and his continuation as Immediate Past President on the Board is very welcomed”.

“It is a great honour to be elected National President and I look forward to the challenge of leading this great organisation and building on the significant legacy of the many distinguished presidents that have gone before.”

“We have some challenging times ahead. Not the least of which are rising to the industry challenges of training our industry, making some sense of a nearly broken planning system, and confronting the continuing issues of deteriorating housing affordability and a lack of appropriate housing supply."

Monaco is a director of the Perth-based GV Lawyers, heading up their commercial litigation team.

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