Associate Professor Dan Immergluck, Ph.D.
Ph.D., urban planning and policy, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1996.
Master of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1987.
B.S., electrical engineering, Northwestern University, 1984.
Dan Immergluck is Associate Professor in the City and Regional Planning Program. Dan has authored dozens of studies on community development, economic development, community reinvestment, fair housing, and related topics. He conducts research on neighborhood change, mortgage and small business finance, development finance, residential segregation, and small and minority business development. His research has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals, including Urban Affairs Review, Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Studies, and others. His most recent book is Credit to the Community: Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the U.S. (M.E. Sharpe, 2004). Dan has testified before the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, federal agencies, and state and local legislative bodies. He also works regularly with research and policy groups around the country.
Dan teaches Principles of Real Estate Finance and Development, Government and Housing Markets, and Advanced Planning Methods. He has received funding from organizations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Aspen Institute. He has also contracted with local government and nonprofits in a variety of locales.
Before moving to Atlanta, Dan was at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President of the Woodstock Institute in Chicago, a policy research organization that works on community and economic development issues. He has also worked as a community economic development practitioner in the nonprofit and public sectors. He has a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.