September 2007

Peter Dreier

Urban & Environmental Policy Institute

Occidental College

Los Angeles, California 90041

Phone: (323) 259-2913

E-Mail: dreier@oxy.edu

EMPLOYMENT

1993-present E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics

Professor of Sociology

Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Program

Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

(Rank: Full Professor with endowed chair)

Spring 2001 Benjamin and Louise Carroll Visiting Professor Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

l984-1992 Director of Housing

Boston Redevelopment Authority

Deputy for Housing Policy

Office of Mayor Raymond L. Flynn

City of Boston

l977-l983 Assistant Professor of Sociology

Tufts University, Medford, MA

l98l-l982 Public Service Fellow

National Science Foundation

l976-l977 Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

l975-l976 Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

EDUCATION

l977 Ph.D. University of Chicago, Sociology

Dissertation: "The Urban Press in Transition: The Political Economy of Newswork"

l972 M.A. University of Chicago, Sociology

Thesis: "Identity Change in a Social Movement: A Study of Jewish Radicals"

l970 B.A. Syracuse University, Journalism and Sociology (cum laude)

l968-l969 University of London/London School of Economics (honors program)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Public Policy/Social Policy Analysis Community Organization Urban Politics/Policy/Planning Community Development Comparative Urban Studies Social Movements

Housing Policy and Problems American Politics

Mass Media in Society and Politics Poverty/Social Inequality

Voting, Campaigns, & Elections Work and Labor in America

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City

University of California Press, 2005; 2^nd edition, 2006.

Coauthor with Regina Freer, Robert Gottlieb and Mark Vallianatos. (2^nd edition, August 2006).

Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Coeditor with Jennifer Wolch and Manuel Pastor. Coauthor of

Introduction.

Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001; 2^nd edition, 2005.

Coauthor with John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom.

Winner: 2001 Michael Harrington Book Award, American Political Science Association, for “outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world"

Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Coauthor with Manuel Pastor, Eugene Grigsby and Marta Lopez- Garza.

The Right to Housing: A Blueprint for Housing the Nation

Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies, l989. (This 70-page booklet is a product of a l5-member Working Group on Housing of which I was a member. The recommendations of this report were incorporated into legislation filed by Congressman Ronald Dellums of California.

Who Rules Boston? A Citizen's Guide To Reclaiming the City.

Center for the Study of Public Policy, Boston, l984.

Jewish Radicalism: A Selected Anthology. Grove Press, New York, l973. (Co-editor with Jack N. Porter. Author of 54-page Introduction, "The Roots of Jewish Radicalism").

Research in Progress

o “Civic Leadership in Los Angeles” – Analysis of the boards of the major employers, corporations, cultural, philanthropic, educational and other institutions in the Los Angeles metro area.

o “Success Stories: A Study of Organizing and Community Building in Los Angeles” – Case studies of effective grassroots organizing and collaboration in Los Angeles since the 1992 civil unrest, examining the factors that contribute to success.

O “Suburban Poverty and Inequality” – Funded by Brookings Institution, this research uses census data to examine the income gap between cities and suburbs, the widening divide among suburbs, and the suburbanization of poverty from 1980-2000. A report was published by Brookings in October 2004 http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20041018_econsegregation.htm)and later published in a book published by Brookings Institution Press.

Articles in Books and Journals

Forthcoming

o “Power From the Bottom Up: How ACORN Organizes the Poor,” in Robert Fisher, ed., The People Shall Rule, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, forthcoming 2007.

2007

o “The U.S. in Comparative Perspective: Measures of Social and Economic Well-Being,” Contexts, Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer 2007.

o ”Organizing for What? Progressive Politics and Movement Building in America,” in Marion Orr, ed., Community Organizing and Political Change in the City, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

O “Patriotism’s Secret History,” in Joel Westheimer, ed., Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America’s Schools? New York: Teachers College Press, 2007 (with Dick Flacks).

2006

o “Movement Mayor: Can Antonio Villaraigosa Change Los Angeles?”

Dissent, Summer 2006, pages 106-113 (with Regina Freer, Robert Gottlieb and Mark Vallianatos)

o “Jane Jacob’s Legacy,” City & Community, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2006, pages 227-231.

o “Katrina and Power in America,” Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2006, pages 1-21.

o "Federal Housing Subsidies: Who Benefits and Why?" in Rachel Bratt, Michael Stone, and Chester Hartman, eds., A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.

o “Pulling Apart: Economic Segregation Among Suburbs and Central Cities in Major Metropolitan Areas, 1980–2000,” in Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert E. Lang, editors, Redefining Urban and Suburban America, Volume 3, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2006 (with Todd Swanstrom, Colleen Casey, and Robert Flack)

2005

o “How the Media Compound Urban Problems,” Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2005, pp. 193-201.

O “Los Angeles: Region by Design,” in Janet Rothenberg Pack, ed., Sunbelt/Frostbelt: Public Policies and Market Forces in Metropolitan Development. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2005, pages 55-109 (Coauthor with Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor, and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli).

O “Regionalisms Old and New,” in Richard A. Clucas, ed., Readings and Cases in State and Local Politics, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005 (with John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom). Reprinted in:

Elizabeth Strom and John Mollenkopf, eds., The Urban Politics Reader, New York: Routledge, 2006.

2004

o “George W. Bush and the Cities,” Social Policy, Summer, 2004, Vol. 34, No. 4, pages 60-65. Also published in:

Progressive Planning, Fall 2004, pages 26-30.

o "Making Southern California: Public Policy, Markets, and the Dynamics of Growth," in Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor, and Peter

Dreier, editors, Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004, pages 1-41 (with Jennifer Wolch and Manuel Pastor).

2003

o "Patriotism and Progressivism," Peace Studies, Vol. 15, No. 4, December 2003 (with Richard Flacks).

o “The Future of Community Reinvestment: Challenges and Opportunities,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 69, No. 4, August 2003, pp. 341-353.

o “Protest, Progress, and the Politics of Community Reinvestment,” in Gregory Squires, ed., Organizing Access to Capital: Advocacy and the Democratization of Financial Institutions, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

O “The Urban Crisis A Decade Since the LA Riots,” National Civic Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, Spring 2003, pp 35-55.

2002

o “Economic Inequality and Public Policy: The Power of Place,”

City & Community, Volume 1, No. 4, December 2002, pp. 349-372 (coauthor with Todd Swanstrom and John Mollenkopf).

Reprinted in:

Nancy Kleniewski, ed., Cities and Society, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

o “Social Justice Philanthropy: Can We Get More Bang for the

Buck?” Social Policy, Vol. 33, No. 1, Fall 2002, pp. 27-33.

2001

o "Jackie Robinson's Legacy: Baseball, Race, and Politics," in Robert Elias, ed., Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender and the National Pastime, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

2000

o "Labor's Love Lost: Rebuilding Unions' Involvement in Federal Housing Policy," Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2000. pp. 327-392.

o "Why America's Workers Can't Pay the Rent," Dissent, Summer 2000, pp 105-111.

o "America's Urban Agenda: A View From California," Brookings Review, Summer 2000. (Ghost-written for California Asembly Speaker Emeritus Antonio Villaraigosa).

1999

o "The Politics of Rent Deregulation: Comparative Analysis of Resource Mobilization in Massachusetts and California," in Nancy Kleniewski and Gordana Rabrenovic, eds., Community Politics and Policy, Volume 7 of Research in Politics and Society, JAI Press, 1999.

o "The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement," The American Prospect, September/October 1999 (with Richard Appelbaum).

Reprinted in:

Thomas Swartz and Frank Bonello, Taking Sides: Economic Issues, 11^th edition, Guilford, Conn.: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2004.

o "The New Boston Discovers the Old: Tourism and the Struggle for a Livable City," in Susan Fainstein and Dennis Judd, eds., The Tourist City, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1999 (with Bruce Ehrlich).

o "The Politics of Community Development: Comments on Margaret Weir," in Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens, eds., The Future of Community Development: A Social Science Synthesis, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

1998

o "There's No Racial Justice Without Economic Justice: Shortcomings of President Clinton's Race Initiative Report," Social Policy, Vol. 29, Number 2, Winter 1998.

o "Philanthropy and the Housing Crisis: Dilemmas of Private Charity and Public Policy in the United States," in C. Theodore Koebel, ed., Shelter and Society: Theory, Reseach and Policy for Nonprofit Housing, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998, pp. 91-137.

1997

o "Philanthropy and the Housing Crisis: The Dilemmas of Private Charity and Public Policy," Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 1997, pp. 235-293.

o "The New Politics of Housing: How to Rebuild the Constituency for a Progressive Federal Housing Policy," Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 63, No. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 5-27.

Reprinted in:

Howard Balanoff, ed., Public Administration: Annual Editions, Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Charles E. Daye, ed., Housing and Community Development, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1999. (Law school casebook).

o "U.S. Housing Policy at the Crossroads," Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1997, pp. 341-370 (with John Atlas).

1996

o "The Struggle For Our Cities," Social Policy, Vol. 26, No. 4, Summer 1996, pp. 9-23.

o "America's Urban Crisis," in John C. Boger and Judith W. Wegner, eds., Race, Poverty, and American Cities, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996, pp. 79-141.

o "Urban Politics and Progressive Housing Policy in Boston," in Dennis Keating, Norm Krumholz, and Phil Star, eds., Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods: Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996, pp 63-82.

o "Community Empowerment Strategies: The Limits and Potential of Community Organizing in Urban Neighborhoods," Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Vol. 2, No.2, May 1996, pp. 121-159. Reprinted in:

Elizabeth Strom and John Mollenkopf, eds., The Urban Politics Reader, New York: Routledge, 2006.

o "Moving From the 'Hood: The Mixed Success of Integrating Suburbia," The American Prospect, Winter 1996, pp. 75-79 (with David Moberg).

Reprinted in:

Scott Chazdon, ed., The Making and Unmaking of Urban Communities, Boston: Allyn & Bacon, forthcoming 1999.

1995

o "Boston's West End 35 Years After the Bulldozer" Planning, Vol. 61, No. 6, August 1995.

O "Making the Case for Cities," Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 4, July/August 1995, pp. 29-37.

o "Housing Policy's Moment of Truth," The American Prospect, Summer 1995, pp. 68-77. (with John Atlas).

o "What Went Wrong: The Defeat of California's Single-Payer Health Reform Initiative," Social Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, Spring l995, pp. 8-19 (Matthew Glasser).

o "U.S. Housing Problems, Policies and Politics in the 1990s," Housing Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1995, pp. 245-270.

Reprinted in:

Housing in Malasia, Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Strategic and International Studies, 1998.

o "Putting Cities on the National Agenda," Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1995, pp. 645-656. (Formerly Urban Affairs Quarterly).

1994

o "Seismic Stimulus: The California Quake's Creative Destruction," The American Prospect, Summer 1994, pp. 40-46 (with Richard Rothstein).

o "Social Housing: American Promise, Canadian Reality," in John Davis, ed., The Affordable City, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994 (with David Hulchanski).

o “Boston: Interview with Peter Dreier,” in Norman Krumholz and Pierre Clavel, Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

1993

o "Enacting a Progressive Housing Agenda," Berkeley Planning Journal, Vol. 8, 1993, pp. 86-93.

o "Ray Flynn's Legacy: American Cities and the Progressive Agenda," National Civic Review, Fall 1993, pp. 380-403.

o "America's Urban Crisis: Symptoms, Causes, Solutions," North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 71. No. 5, June 1993, pp. 1351-1402.

o "The Role of Nonprofit Housing in Canada and the United States," Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1993, pp. 43-80 (with David Hulchanski).

o "A National Housing Agenda for America," Real Estate Finance Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 56-66. (with John Atlas)

1992

o "Housing and Urban Development: A New Agenda," in Mark Green, ed., Changing America: Blueprints for the New Administration, New York: Newmarket Press, 1992, pp. 283-298 (with John Atlas).

o "Kinder, Gentler Canada," The American Prospect, Winter 1992, pp. 85-88 (with Elaine Bernard).

o "Canada: A Kinder, Gentler Nation," Social Policy, Vol. 23, No.1, Summer 1992, pp. 6-19 (with Elaine Bernard).

Reprinted in:

D. Stanley Eitzen and Craig S. Leedham, eds., Solutions to Social Problems: Lessons from Other Societies, Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998; and second edition, 2001.

o "From Projects to Communities: How to Redeem Public Housing," The American Prospect, Summer 1992, pp. 74-85 (with John Atlas).

Reprinted in:

John A. Hird, ed., Controversies in American Public Policy, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

America's Cities: Opposing Viewpoints, San Diego, CA.: Greenhaven Press, 1993.

Journal of Housing, Vol. 50, No. 1, January/February 1993 pp. 21-36.

o "The Housing Crisis Enters the 1990s," New England Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1992, pp 155-67. (with Richard Appelbaum).

Reprinted in:

Padraig O'Malley, ed., Homelessness: New England and Beyond, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, l992.

o "How to Expand Homeownership for Americans," Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 2, March/April 1992, pp. 42-47 (with John Atlas).

1991

o "Redlining Cities: How Banks Color Community Development," Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 6, November/December 1991, pp. 15-23.

Reprinted in:

Susan F. Feiner, ed., Race and Gender in the American Economy: Views Across the Spectrum, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1996.

o "Scapegoating Rent Control: Masking the Causes of Homelessness," Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 57, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp.153-164. (with Richard Appelbaum and John Gilderbloom).

o "Downtown Development and Urban Reform: The Politics of Boston's Linkage Policy," Urban Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3 March 1991, pp. 354-377 (with Bruce Ehrlich).

o "Housing: The Invisible Crisis," Washington Journalism Review, May 1991 (with Alec Dubro)- cover story.

o "Socialism in One Province: The NDP Takes Power in Ontario," Social Policy, Vol. 21, No. 4, Spring l991, pp. 48-58.

o "Homelessness: The American Nightmare," Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 2, March/April 1991, pp. 46-52 (with Richard Appelbaum).

Reprinted in:

LeRoy W. Barnes, ed., Social Problems, twentieth edition, Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing Co., 1992. (Also reprinted, in twenty-second edition, 1994).

Harold A. Widdison, ed., Social Problems, twenty-first edition, Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing Co., 1993.

Kurt Finsterbusch and George McKenna, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Social Issues, Guilford, Connecticut, Dushkin Publishing Co., 1992.

1990

o "The Limits of Localism: Progressive Municipal Housing Policies in Boston," Urban Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2, December 1990, pp. 1l1-216 (with Dennis Keating).

Reprinted in:

Roger Caves, ed., Exploring Urban America, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1994.

o "The Crisis in Rental Housing: Recent Developments in the United States," in Willem van Vliet and Jan van Weesep, eds., Government and Housing: Developments in Seven Countries, Sage Publications, l990 (with Richard Appelbaum).

o "Affordable Housing: Lessons from Canada," The American Prospect, Vol. l, No. l, Spring l990 (with J. David Hulchanski).

o "Grassroots Strategies for the Housing Crisis: A National Agenda for the l990s," Social Policy, Vol. l9, No. 3, Winter l989, pp. 25-38 (with John Atlas).

Reprinted in:

Leroy Barnes, ed., Social Problems, eighteenth edition, Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Publishing Company, l990.

1974-1989

o "Economic Growth and Economic Justice: Populist Housing and Jobs Policies in Boston," in Gregory D. Squires, ed., Unequal Partnerships: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Post War America, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, l989.

o "Housing Programs and the Welfare State," in Sara Rosenberry and Chester Hartman, eds., Housing Issues of the l990s, New York: Praeger Publishers, l989.

o "Housing Policy," in Mark Green, ed., America's Transition: Blueprints for the l990s: New York: The Democracy Project, 1989 (with John Atlas and Derek Shearer).

o "What Every Business Can Do About Housing," Harvard Business Review, Vol. 66, No. 5, September/October l988, pp. 52-6l (with David Schwartz and Ann Greiner).

o "Community-Based Housing: A Progressive Approach to a New Federal Policy," Social Policy, Vol. l8, No. 2, Fall l987, pp. l8-22.

Reprinted in:

Leroy W. Barnes, ed., Social Problems, 17th edition, Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Publishing Group, l989.

o "The Tenants Movement in the United States," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 8, No. 2, l984, pp. 255-279.

Reprinted in:

Chester Hartman, ed., America's Housing Crisis, Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, l983.

Rachel Bratt, Chester Hartman, and Ann Meyerson, eds., Critical Perspectives on Housing, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, l986.

William Tabb and Larry Sawers, eds., Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy(Second Edition), New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

o "The Status of Tenants in the United States," Social Problems, Vol. 30, No. 2, December l982, pp. l79-l98.

o "A Party for a Change: Grassroots Organizations and Electoral Politics," in Frank Reissman, et. al., eds., Beyond Reagan: Alternatives for the l980's, New York: Harper & Row, l984, pp. 334-345. (with John Atlas).

o "The Position of the Press in the U.S. Power Structure," Social Problems, Vol. 29, No. 3, February l982, pp. 298-3l0.

Reprinted in:

Ellen Wartella and D. Charles Whitney, eds., Mass Communication Review Yearbook, Vol. 4, Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publications, l983.

Henry L. Tischler, Phillip Whitten and David Hunter, Introduction to Sociology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, l983.

Richard Peterson and Charlotte Vaughan, eds., Structure and Process: Readings for Introductory Sociology, Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., l984.

Ronald Berkman and Laura Kitch, eds., Politics in the Media Age, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, l985.

Fred R. Harris, ed., Essays on the Body Politic, Glenview, Ill.: Scott Foresman and Company, l986.

o "The Corporate Complaint Against the Media," Quill, Vol. 7l, No. l0, November l983.

Reprinted in:

Ray Hiebert and Carol Reuss, eds., The Impact of Mass Media, New York: Longman, Inc., l985. (Also in second edition, 1988).