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Chester W. Hartman (-2023) is an American
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, author, and academic. He is Director of Research of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) in
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Previously, he was PRRAC's Executive Director. He is also a Fellow of the
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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
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. He has served on the faculty of
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, the
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, the
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, and, most recently, the
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. Hartman serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of the ''
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'', ''Housing Policy Debate'', ''
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'', ''Housing Studies'', and the National Low Income Housing Coalition, of which he is former Secretary. He has served as a consultant to numerous public and private agencies, including the
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, the
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, Stanford Research Institute (now named
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),
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,
California Rural Legal Assistance California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal service and political advocacy organization created to help California's low-income individuals and communities. CRLA represents all types of individuals and communitie ...
, the Urban Coalition, the
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, and the
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of New York.


Education

Hartman holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from
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.


Selected publications

*1973: ''Housing Urban America'', Aldine, 1973 (rev. ed 1980), with Jon Pynoos and Robert Schafer. *1973: ''The World of the Urban Working Class'', contributor,
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, 1973, with Marc Fried (author), Ellen Fitzgerald, Peggy Gleicher, and Edwina Nary Bentz. *1974: ''Yerba Buena: Land Grab and Community Resistance in San Francisco'', Glide, 1974. *1975: ''Housing and Social Policy'',
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, 1975. *1982: ''Displacement: How to Fight It'', National Housing Law Project, 1982, with William Dennis Keating and Richard T. LeGates. *1983: ''America's Housing Crisis: What Is To Be Done?'', Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. *1984: ''The Transformation of San Francisco'', Rowman and Allanheld, 1984. *1986: ''Critical Perspectives on Housing'', editor,
Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptists, Baptist minister Russell Conwell an ...
, 1986, with Rachael G. Bratt (editor) and Ann Meyerson (editor). *1988: ''Winning America: Ideas & Leadership for the 1990s'', editor,
South End Press South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, Juliet Schor, among others, in Boston's South End. It published books written by political ac ...
, 1988, with
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(editor). *1989: ''Housing Issues of the 1990s'', Praeger, 1989, with Sara Rosenberry. *1992: ''Paradigms Lost: The Post Cold War Era'',
Pluto Press Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London, founded in 1969. Originally, it was the publishing arm of the International Socialists (today known as the Socialist Workers Party), until it changed hands and was replaced ...
, 1992, with Pedro Villanova (editor). *1997: ''Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America'', M.E. Sharpe, 1997. *2001: ''Challenges to Equality: Poverty & Race in America'', M.E. Sharpe, 2001. *2002: ''Between Eminence & Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning'',
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, 2002, with
Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs (''née'' Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book '' The Death and Life of Great American Cities' ...
(foreword). *2002: ''City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco'',
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, 2002. *2006: ''The Right to Housing: Foundation of a New Social Agenda'', Temple University, 2006. *2006: ''Poverty & Race in America: The Emerging Agendas'', Lexington Books, 2006, with
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,
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, etc. *2006: ''There Is No Such Thing As a Natural Disaster: Race, Class & Hurricane Katrina'',
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, 2006, with Gregory Squires. *2009: ''Mandate for Change: Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond'',
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, 2009, with Catherine Albisa, etc. *2010: ''The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for American Cities'',
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, 2010, with Gregory Squires *2010: "Steps Toward a Just Metropolis," in ''What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs'', New Village, 2010, pp. 167–175. *2013: ''From Foreclosure to Fair Lending'', New Village, 2013, with Gregory Squires.


References

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