About . . . Wendell Pritchett

Wendell Pritchett is assistant professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania , where he teaches property, local government law, urban policy, and legal history. He is author of Brownsville, Brooklyn: Jews, Blacks and the Changing Nature of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press, 2002), as well as of articles the Journal of Urban History, Yale Law & Policy Review, and The Urban Lawyer. His current research examines the development of postwar urban policy, in particular urban renewal, housing finance and housing discrimination. He is also writing a biography of Robert Weaver, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pritchett has specialized in real estate and housing law, representing nonprofit organizations involved in the development of affordable housing and economic development.