Peter Dreier

Education[edit]

Dreier graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. in 1970 and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1977.[2]

Career[edit]

Dreier was the Director of Housing at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn for nine years.[2]


In January 1993, Dreier became a professor at Occidental College.[2][3]


In 1993, Dreier was appointed by the Clinton administration to the advisory board of Resolution Trust Corporation.[4][5]


Dreier is an urban policy analyst.[6]


He was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America until 2023, when he left due to DSA's statements in favor of Palestinian liberation.[7][8]

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame.

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; Manuel Pastor; Peter Dreier, eds. (2004). Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816642984.

Jennifer R. Wolch

Peter Dreier, John H. Mollenkopf, Todd Swanstrom, Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century, University Press of Kansas, 2004,  9780700613649

ISBN

List of Occidental College people

Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act

Official website

on the CommonDreams news website

Content by Peter Dreier

on Bill Moyers' website

Features by or with Peter Dreier

on Yes! magazine online

Features by Peter Dreier

on the "LA Progressive" digital news site

Content by Peter Dreier