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PPOL-556 HOUSING POLICY
Fall only
Mary Cunningham
This class will provide an overview of housing and homelessness policy goals, tools, and performance in the U.S. over the last seven decades. Students will gain a thorough understanding of the federal, state, and local institutions that make and implement housing and homeless assistance policies. Readings and discussions will explore a broad definition of what it means for policy to succeed, and will review evidence on the performance of basic programmatic approaches, including homelessness assistance, rental assistance, homeownership assistance, and regulatory policies. Over the course of the semester, students will prepare several short memos applying housing policy principles to conditions and needs in particular communities. Issue areas will include timely topics such as responding to homelessness during an economic recession and what to do about the foreclosure crisis. In addition, each student will develop and defend a comprehensive housing strategy, targeted to a particular city or metropolitan region, defining a hierarchy of housing policy objectives and a combination of programmatic initiatives to achieve these objectives.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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