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Urban Housing Policy
Course #: PPOL-G 741
Description:
This course will provide students with the ability to identify and analyze phenomena in cities and urbanized areas related to a socially fundamental need for adequate and affordable shelter that ensures individual well-being and social and community stability and sustainability. Students completing this course will understand the progress the United States has made in ensuring decent and affordable housing for its population, as well as the considerable policy barriers that prevent many people enjoying the housing they desire and the individual and social benefits that arise from it. Students will understand initiatives and interventions related to housing primarily from the perspective of public policy, but also disciplines such as sociology, economics, planning and management science. Students will be able to identify and analyze means by which to measure outcomes related to housing policy that affect diverse groups in society based on age, race/ethnicity, family status, geography and other characteristics. Students will understand how ideology and values are fundamental to understanding how housing is conceived as a good and a service, how various stakeholder groups are affected by housing policies, and whether and how housing can be viewed as a means for social justice and equality. Though the focus of this course is housing policies in the United States, examples will be drawn from other developed and developing countries as appropriate and feasible.
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