Sessions
Digital Equity for Affordable Housing
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Thu
Martin Dunn is a social entrepreneur and human rights activist based in New York City. He is a leader in the fields of housing and community development and over the last 30 years has been involved in the development of more than 4,000 units of affordable housing. Since 1998, Martin has been President of Dunn Development Corp., a socially conscious, award-winning real estate developer with expertise in affordable and supportive housing. In addition to being an advocate on housing and homelessness issues in New York City and New York State, Martin is active in human rights campaigns around the world.
Dunn Development Corp.’s mission is to build the highest quality housing for low and middle-income New Yorkers, including those with disabilities and other special needs. Dunn Development Corp. has created innovative financing and program models that are highly regarded in the affordable and supportive housing fields. In addition to general affordable and mixed income housing, Dunn Development Corp. has developed new initiatives to serve the homeless, people with psychiatric disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS and people with developmental disabilities. Dunn Development has also been at the forefront of incorporating healthy, active and sustainable design and green building into affordable housing and developed the first two ENERGY STAR rated mid or high-rise buildings in the United States.
From 1993 to 1997, Martin was the Executive Director of the East New York Urban Youth Corps, which at the time was one of New York City's most dynamic and successful non-profit community development corporations. From 1989 to 1992, Martin held senior program and management positions at the Association to Benefit Children.
Martin has a B.A. in Political Science from Cornell University. He received the prestigious Reebok Human Rights Award in 1990 for his work with the Association to Benefit Children. Martin has served on the board of directors or advisory boards for numerous non-profit organizations and continues to be an active volunteer.
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Martin serves on the Boards of OutRight Action International, the Fund for Global Human Rights, the New York State Association for Affordable Housing and the Citizen’s Housing and Planning Council; he also serves on the advisory boards of the Furman Center at New York University Law School and the New York Housing Conference. He previously was a long-term member of the Boards of Directors of Hour Children, Supportive Housing Network of New York, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, Forefront Activists: a Global Network of Human Rights Defenders, Neighbors Against Garbage and Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES).