Housing and Urban Policy
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Week 2 - How Well are we Housed?

Description

Housing conditions and measures can help us understand why and how housing matters.

Facilitators

Readings

  • Schwartz

    • Chapter 2  
  • Tilly, Chris, The Economic Environment of Housing: Income Inequality and Insecurity  

  • Stone, Michael, Housing Affordability: One-Third of a Nation Shelter-Poor  

  • Denton, Nancy, Segregation and Discrimination in Housing  

  • Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, State of the Nation’s Housing 2021 (Skim)

  • HUD Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis

Slides

  • Slides - Framework for Analysis
  • Slides - Who Gets What Housing?

Other Resources

  • A Refugee Crisis Runs Into a Housing Crisis

  • Cizek, Katerina, *A Short History of the Highrise

  • How Austin Became one of the Least Affordable Cities in America

  • In Bakersfield, Many Find a California They Can Afford

  • Selling Luxury Condos Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel

Contents
  • Description
  • Facilitators
  • Readings
  • Slides
  • Other Resources
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