Peter is the Director of Legal Strategies at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, and partners with the Baltimore Housing Roundtable to promote human rights based, equitable development. He was the primary writer and editor of the Roundtable’s report, Community + Land + Trust: Tools for Development Without Displacement. During his 24 years of legal services to low-income households, Peter co-founded a legal aid program for those without housing and the United Workers, a multi-racial human rights group that does community organizing. He is a board member of the Charm City Community Land Trust in Baltimore.