Chester Hartman

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Chester W. Hartman (-2023) is an American urban planner, author, and academic. He is Director of Research of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was PRRAC's Executive Director. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam as well as founder and former chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive planners and community organizers. He has served on the faculty of Harvard University, Yale University, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, the University of California, Berkeley, George Washington University, Columbia University, [1] and, most recently, the University of Massachusetts, Boston. [2]

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Hartman serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Negro Education , Journal of Urban Affairs , Housing Policy Debate, Urban Affairs Quarterly , Housing Studies, and the National Low Income Housing Coalition, of which he is former Secretary. [3]

He has served as a consultant to numerous public and private agencies, including the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Stanford Research Institute (now named SRI International), Arthur D. Little, California Rural Legal Assistance, the Urban Coalition, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Legal Aid Society of New York. [4]

Education

Hartman holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University. [5]

Selected publications

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References

  1. "PRRAC | Staff Bio". Archived from the original on 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  2. UMB CRSCD Chester Hartman
  3. "PRRAC | Staff Bio". Archived from the original on 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  4. UMB CRSCD Chester Hartman
  5. "PRRAC | Staff Bio". Archived from the original on 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2014-06-16.