This course examines how planning and housing policies help shape the housing affordability landscape in North American cities. The course will introduce students to housing concepts, housing issues, and the role planning has played in (re)producing racialized geographies and housing inequality (e.g., historical and contemporary forms of racial and exclusionary zoning). We will also explore planning’s potential to address housing affordability issues.
8.0 credits, including at least 1.5 credits at the B-level in Social Sciences
60; Priority will be given to students enrolled in Specialist, Major and Minor Programs in City Studies and Human Geography; and Minor in Urban Public Policy and Governance. Additional students will be admitted as space permits.
