Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier is E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. He is coauthor of several books on urban policy, including Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he served as housing policy advisor and deputy to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn.
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