Professor of Housing Economics, University of Adelaide
Professor Chris Leishman is Director of the Centre for Housing, Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Adelaide, and a Professor of Housing Economics. He is also the Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute's Adelaide Research Centre and the University of Adelaide's Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research.
The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don't expect it to solve the crisis
Oct 16, 2022 13:33 pm UTC| Economy
The federal Labor government has promised to craft a national housing and homelessness plan and to fund new social housing, returning Canberra to a field it all but abandoned for a decade. A new Productivity Commission...
The many faces of social housing – home to 1 in 10 Australians
Mar 15, 2020 06:04 am UTC| Economy Real Estate
Social housing is part of the lives of a surprising number of Australians. On any one night in Australia, just over 4% of households rent social housing. Yet it has housed many more people than this for brief, and...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well