PBPL 177 - Housing Policy

Course Description

This course offers students an introduction to affordable housing policies in the United States. After briefly tracing the history of public housing in the United States, the course will familiarize students with the key policy tools available to build, maintain, and preserve affordable housing. Many of these policies also endeavor to deconcentrate poverty, create mixed-income communities, and ensure economic opportunities for low-income households. Students will draw on current social science research to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs and identify challenges to current policy. Students will gain working knowledge about core housing programs and innovative policy interventions designed to ease the crisis of housing affordability.