Rate My Professor Chris Martin

Chris Martin is an Associate Professor and Scientia Fellow in the City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He serves as Co-Lead of the City Futures Housing program and Director of the UNSW-AHURI Research Centre. His research focuses on rental housing and housing affordability, with particular interests in tenancy law, the private rental market and related institutions, social housing, lodging and boarding houses, residential parks and land lease communities, housing investment and finance, housing policy and intergovernmental relations, the history of housing policy, international comparative housing studies, and intersections between housing and criminal justice.

Martin holds a Bachelor of Economics (Social Sciences) with First Class Honours, a Bachelor of Laws with Second Class Honours, and a Doctor of Philosophy, all from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining UNSW in 2015, he was Senior Policy Officer at the Tenants’ Union of NSW and past Chair of Shelter NSW. He has led numerous research projects funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, the Australian Research Council, and other bodies. In 2026, he received the Mike Berry Award for Housing Research Excellence.

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