President/Executive Director

Philip Tegeler was appointed as PRRAC's Executive Director beginning in January of 2004. Mr. Tegeler is a civil rights lawyer with more than 20 years experience in fair housing, educational equity, land use law, and institutional reform litigation. Before coming to PRRAC, he was with the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, where he served as Legal Director from 1997-2003. He has also worked as Legal Projects Director at the Metropolitan Action Institute in New York City, and taught for three years in the University of Connecticut School of Law clinical program. Mr. Tegeler has also served as an adjunct professor at the UConn Law School and at Columbia Law School, and his recent courses have included "Federal Courts," "Advanced Civil Procedure: Class Actions," and "Housing and Civil Rights." Mr. Tegeler is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia Law School.

Mr. Tegeler's publications include "The Future of Race Conscious Goals in National Housing Policy," in Public Housing Transformation: Confronting the Legacy of Segregation (The Urban Institute Press, 2009); "Connecting Families to Opportunity: The Next Generation of Housing Mobility Policy," in Brian Smedley and Alan Jenkins, eds., All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time, (The New Press, 2007); "The Persistence of Segregation in Government Housing Programs," in Xavier de Souza Briggs, ed., The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (Brookings Institution Press 2005); "Transforming Section 8: Using Federal Housing Subsidies to Promote Individual Housing Choice and Desegregation," 30 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 451 (1995) (co-author with Michael Hanley and Judith Liben); "Housing Segregation and Local Discretion," 3 Journal of Law and Policy 209 (1994), and Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown (coeditor) (Planners Press, 1985). Additional articles have appeared in Clearinghouse Review, Journal of Legal Education, Land Use Law, and Planning Magazine.

Mr. Tegeler was co-founder and the first board president of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center, served as a member of the Connecticut Housing Coalition Board for nine years, and was an appointed member of the Connecticut Blue Ribbon Commission on Affordable Housing in 1999-2000. He is an active member of the Housing Justice Network.

Some of Mr. Tegeler's significant cases at the Connecticut ACLU included Sheff v. O'Neill (1996) (interdistrict school desegregation case); Rivera v. Rowland (1999) (class action challenge to high caseloads in statewide public defender system); NAACP of Greater New Haven v. Milford Housing Authority (1998) (challenging suburban town's rejection of federal funds for scattered site public housing); Pitt v. Hartford Housing Authority (1998) (class action on behalf of families displaced from public housing demolition); and Christian Community Action v. Kemp (1995) (class action challenging segregated public housing site selection). Mr. Tegeler was also involved in a variety of prisoners rights, First Amendment, gay rights, and exclusionary zoning cases.

Chester Hartman, an urban planner and author, is Director of Research of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, DC. Prior to taking his present position, he founded and was President/Executive Director of PRRAC. Before that, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California-Berkeley, and Columbia University. He is currently serving as an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at George Washington University.

His books Include:

Housing Urban America (Aldine, 1973; rev. ed 1980)
The World of the Urban Working Class (Harvard Univ. Press, 1973)
Yerba Buena: Land Grab and Community Resistance in San Francisco (Glide, 1974)
Housing and Social Policy (Prentice-Hall, 1975)
Displacement: How to Fight It (National Housing Law Project, 1982)
America's Housing Crisis: What Is To Be Done? (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983)
The Transformation of San Francisco (Rowman and Allanheld, 1984)
Critical Perspectives on Housing (Temple University Press, 1986)
Winning America: Ideas & Leadership for the 1990s (South End Press, 1988)
Housing Issues of the 1990s (Praeger, 1989)
Paradigms Lost: The Post Cold War Era (Pluto, 1992)
Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America (M.E. Sharpe, 1997)
Challenges to Equality: Poverty & Race in America (M.E. Sharpe, 2001)
Between Eminence & Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning (Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research, 2002)
City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco (University of California Press, 2002)
The Right to Housing: Foundation of a New Social Agenda (Temple University Press, 2006)
Poverty & Race in America: The Emerging Agendas (Lexington Books, 2006)
There Is No Such Thing As a Natural Disaster: Race, Class & Hurricane Katrina (Routeledge, 2006)

His articles have appeared in The Nation, Social Work, Virginia Law Review, Journal of the American Planning Association, University of Wisconsin Law Review, Progressive Architecture, The Utne Reader, The Village Voice, Encyclopedia of Social Work, Social Policy, Society, Dissent, Mother Jones, Planning, Yale Law Journal, Journal of Housing, The Progressive, Land Economics, The Gerontologist, Shelterforce, Clearinghouse Review, The Urban Lawyer, Journal of Urban Affairs, Public Welfare, Vanderbilt Law Review, Social Work, Journal of Public Health Policy, Seton Hall Law Review, Housing Policy Debate, University of North Carolina Law Review, The Encyclopedia of Housing, Civil Rights Journal, The Journal of Negro Education, Souls and numerous other academic and popular journals and newspapers.

Dr. Hartman is the founder and former Chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers.

He serves/has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing Policy Debate, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Housing Studies, The Journal of Negro Education and is a former Board member/Secretary of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

He has been a consultant to numerous public and private agencies, including HUD, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Stanford Research Institute, 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.

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