Biography
Peter Hoffman is the Managing Attorney for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative (NVI). Peter created NVI in April of 2018 to provide free legal assistance to nonprofit neighborhood and community organizations to help prevent vacancy and propel the grassroots rehabilitation of abandoned properties. Peter previously worked in Kansas City on similar efforts with Legal Aid of Western Missouri starting in 2010. In 2015, Peter helped create that organization’s “Adopt-a-Neighborhood Project”, serving as Project Director until relocating to his hometown of St. Louis in 2018.
Peter received his JD/MPA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with an emphasis in Urban, Land Use, and Environmental Law. Peter’s articles, “Bringing Self-Empowered Revitalization to Distressed Neighborhoods” published in the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, and “Legal Services and Pro Bono Lawyers Help Neighborhoods Tackle Vacancy” published in the St. Louis Bar Journal, both spotlight the role pro bono lawyers can play in community revitalization.