Peter A. Tatian is the research director for Urban–Greater DC. He also leads NeighborhoodInfo DC, a neighborhood data system and civic engagement tool for the District of Columbia that is part of Urban’s National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership. Tatian advises nonprofits on performance management and evaluation and heads Urban’s work providing technical assistance on data collection and use to grantees of the US Department of Education’s Promise Neighborhoods initiative.

Tatian directed the evaluation of the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling program, which has provided counseling services to more than 1 million troubled homeowners. He has also studied the impacts of public and supportive housing on neighborhoods and has worked on housing policy reform in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.