Chester Hartman

5 Posts

Chester Hartman was a contributing editor to Shelterforce, a founder of Planners Network and the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, and a prolific author and scholar on radical urban planning topics.

Organizing Strategy

Occupy Wall Street: A New Wave of Fair Housing Activism?

March 24, 2014 | Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires

Is there a new community reinvestment movement afoot?

Opinion

The Case for a Right to Housing

November 23, 2006 | Chester Hartman

Our society has lots of rights and entitlements, with some limited kinds of rights in the housing area, but we’re way shy of a right to decent, affordable housing for all.

Through an open car door, two sleeping children are visible

Housing

Left Behind

March 1, 2003 | Chester Hartman

Student transience has received scant attention in the extensive literature about educational problems in the United States. Yet research indicates that students who are highly mobile acquire basic skills at […]

Interview

Interview with Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

January 1, 1995 | Chester Hartman

Roberta Achtenberg, former Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, came to Washington from San Francisco, where she had been an elected member of the city’s Board of Supervisors […]

exterior of HUD building in Washington, D.C.

Interview

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing

September 1, 1994 | Chester Hartman

Joseph Shuldiner Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing Prior to coming to HUD, Joseph Shuldiner was executive director of the Los Angeles Housing Authority (1990-93) and before that was […]