PLAN 431Issues in Housing

This course will focus on issues in housing such as affordability, suitability, need and supply, homelessness, informality, evictions, and displacement. Students will learn about the factors shaping housing provision and outcomes, the current and historic role of the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in the provision of housing, and the roles of different policies in ameliorating or exacerbating housing concerns. Students will enhance their abilities to identify root causes of planning problems and develop skills to analyze and articulate the implications of different types of housing systems and policies from a diversity of public interest perspectives.