Schedule
Our course schedule is subject to change over the course of semester - please check here often for updates.
How will we learn together? How can we conceptualize the impacts of housing and urban policy?
| Date | Topic |
| 8/21/2023 | Course Introduction |
| 8/23/2023 | Conceptual Frameworks for Housing Analysis |
How well are we housed?
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 8/28/2023 | How well are we housed? |
| 8/30/2023 | Government intervention in housing |
| 9/6/2023 | Policy analysis |
Reading Week
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9/11/2023 | Reading Week - No Class Session |
| 9/13/2023 | Reading Week - No Class Session |
How are individual and collective financial benefits and burdens allocated through housing?
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9/18/2023 | An Evolutionary History of Homeownership |
| 9/20/2023 | Disparities in Access to Ownership |
| 9/25/2023 | TBD |
| 9/27/2023 | TBD |
Where are poor people to live? What housing are poor people to occupy?
| Date | Topic |
| 10/2/2023 | Public Housing |
| 10/4/2023 | Federally Assisted Housing |
| 10/9/2023 | Housing Production Strategies |
| 10/11/2023 | Danielle Chynoweth - Cunningham Township Supervisor’s Office |
What are the causes and consequences of housing instability?
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 10/30/2023 | Political Ecology of Housing |
| 11/1/2023 | Vinisha Basnet - Political Ecology of Bedbugs |
| 11/6/2023 | Regulating Housing Environments |
| 11/8/2023 | Eviction |
What would a global right to housing look like?
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 11/13/2023 | Housing Market Discrimination and Fair Housing |
| 11/15/2023 | Houselessness |
| 11/20/2023 | Fall Break - No Class |
| 11/22/2023 | Fall Break - No Class |
| 11/27/2023 | Ageing and Disability |
What’s your plan for intervention?
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 11/29/2023 | Final Presentations |
| 12/4/2023 | Final Presentations |
| 12/6/2023 | Final Presentations |