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11.401  Intro: Housing, Community & Economic Development

Fall 2003

Instructors: Langley C Keyes, J. Phillip Thompson

TA: La Tonya Green

Lecture:  Tuesday & Thursday 10:30 - 12 noon  (10-401)        

COURSE OBJECTIVES: 

As an introduction to the field of Housing, Community and Economic Development (HCED), the course is structured to:

(1 advance students' understanding of how public policy and private markets affect housing, economic development, the local economy, and neighborhood institutions.

(2) provide an overview of techniques for framing public and private interventions to meet housing and community development agendas , broadly defined, of inner city and low income neighborhoods

(3) review and critique specific programs, policies and strategies that are (and have been) directed at local development and neighborhood regeneration issues

(4) give students an opportunity to reflect on their personal sense of the "housing, community and economic development" process and the various roles that planners play in implementing the elements of that agenda

Given that the quest for effective practice underlies the HCED philosophy, the course emphasizes strategic analysis of the institutional contexts within which public, nonprofit and private actions directed at housing, economic and community development are implemented. A way of framing neighborhood institutions and organizations, their relationship to one another and to "city-wide" players is a theme running throughout the course.

READINGS

The readings are online

REQUIREMENTS

Students are expected to do the required reading; to participate in class discussions and to hand in three memos. Expectations for the memos, their form, purpose, content, setting etc., will be discussed in detail in class.

GRADE

The final grade will be based on: class participation 40% memos 60%

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