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Course Syllabus: PPOL-G 741L Urban Housing Policy
(2020)
  • Michael P Johnson, Jr., University of Massachusetts - Boston
Abstract
This course will provide students with the ability to identify and analyze phenomena in cities and urbanized areas related to a socially fundamental need for adequate and affordable shelter that ensures individual well-being and social and community stability and sustainability. Students completing this course will understand the progress the United States, and other countries has made in ensuring decent and affordable housing for its population, as well as the considerable policy barriers that prevent many people enjoying the housing they desire and the individual and social benefits that arise from it.
Keywords
  • University of Massachusetts Boston,
  • Public Policy PhD program,
  • housing policy,
  • urban planning and community development MS program
Publication Date
Fall 2020
Citation Information
Michael P Johnson. "Course Syllabus: PPOL-G 741L Urban Housing Policy" (2020)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_johnson/56/