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 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

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. He has served on the faculty of

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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 '' Journal of Negro Education'', ''

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'', ''Housing Policy Debate'', '' Urban Affairs Quarterly'', ''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 United States Commission on Civil Rights, Stanford Research Institute (now named SRI International),

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, the Urban Coalition, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Legal Aid Society of New York.

Education

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

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,

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, 1986, with Rachael G. Bratt (editor) and Ann Meyerson (editor). *1988: ''Winning America: Ideas & Leadership for the 1990s'', editor,

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, 1988, with Marcus Raskin (editor). *1989: ''Housing Issues of the 1990s'', Praeger, 1989, with Sara Rosenberry. *1992: ''Paradigms Lost: The Post Cold War Era'', Pluto Press, 1992, with Pedro Villanova (editor). *1997: ''Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America'',

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, 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

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(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 Eric Foner,

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, etc. *2006: ''There Is No Such Thing As a Natural Disaster: Race, Class &

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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'',

, 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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