Chris Leishman
Director
Member, AFRC
Chris is an internationally leading housing economist and academic, currently Professor of Property and Housing Economics at the University of South Australia, Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He is an editor for the Urban Studies Journal and was previously Editor-In-Chief of the Housing Studies Journal. Focussing on the economics of the housing market, Chris’s work has helped inform and shape government policy on housing supply and affordability, particularly in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Chris has undertaken numerous studies for a variety of government departments and entities in several countries, third sector organisations, and a range of academic funders including the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK. Most recently, he has led projects on Australia’s housing policy responses to COVID (AHURI), and contributed to policy development work funded by CHIA, Shelter and the Community Housing Council.
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