WEEK 1
29 August
Introduction
- Review syllabus
- Review course website
- Assign discussion leads
- Lecture: Housing in a Free Market
- In-Class Activity: Short videos on housing crisis
- How the US made affordable homes illegal [stop @9:10m]
- America’s Looming Housing Crisis [@3:30-12m]
- A. Activists Demand Real Solutions to Housing Crisis as City Cracks Down on Homeless Encampments [stop @53:30]
- TWO FIRES TELL THE TALE OF THE U.S. HOUSING CRISIS [@:42-9:42]
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WEEK 2
4 September
NO CLASS
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WEEK 3
11 September
Housing & Capitalism
Weekly Response #1 DUE @ 5p
Discussion Leads: Yvonne (UG) & Arin (G)
- Lecture: Financialization of Housing
- Class Discussion
- In-Class Activity: Watch: PUSH Trailer PUSH excerpts
Readings for Class Discussion:
- Madden, D. & P. Marcuse. (2016). In Defense of Housing. [Ch. 1: Against the Commodification of Housing AND (G-only) Ch. 2: Residential Alienation] >>on BB
- Graziani, T., Montano, J., Roy, A., & Stephens, P. (2020). Who Profits from Crisis? Housing Grabs in Time of Recovery. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pw706tf [Undergrads: Read pp 4-5; read any two case studies from pp 12-30. Graduates please read full report]
- (G-only) Fields, D., “Unwilling Subjects of Financialization,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41, no. 4 (2017): 588–603. >> on BB
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WEEK 4
18 September
Racialized Housing Policies PT.1
Weekly Response #2 DUE @ 5p
Discussion Leads: Tiffany (G)
- Lecture: US Housing Policy Pre-and Post War
- Class Discussion
- In-Class Activity: Introduce Final Paper Assignment
- In-Class Activity: New Deal Housing Projects: Housing in Our Time
Readings and NPR for Class Discussion:
- Rothstein, T. (2017). The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright. [Preface AND Ch. 1: If San Francisco, then Everywhere?] – posted to BB
- (G-only) Wilder, C.S. (2000). A covenant with color: Race and social power in Brooklyn. Columbia Univ. Press. [Ch. 9: Vulnerable People, Undesirable Places: The New Deal and the Making of the Brooklyn Ghetto, 1920-1990] – posted to BB
- Listen to (transcript available also): A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America from NPR (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/526655831)
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WEEK 5
25 September
NO CLASS
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WEEK 6
2 October
Racialized Housing Policies PT.2
Weekly Response #3 DUE @ 5p
Discussion Leads: Amani (UG), Alex (UG) & Jessica (G)
- Lecture: Continued Legacies of Housing Discrimination
- Class Discussion
- In-Class Activity: Listen to second ½ of Reveal Podcast: The red line: Racial disparities in lending [walking in the rain]
Readings and Podcast for Class Discussion:
- Listen to first ½ of Reveal Podcast: The red line: Racial disparities in lending
- Taylor, K-Y. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. UNC Press (2019). [Introduction AND (G-only) Ch. 2: The Business of the Urban Housing Crisis] — posted on BB
- (G-only) The Late 1970s: Modern Homelessness Emerges (Pre-Callahan)
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WEEK 7
10 October (Tues.)
Housing Policy Post-NYC Fiscal Crisis
Weekly Response #4 DUE @ 5p
Discussion Leads: Theophilus (UG), Henry (UG) & Arin (G)
- Lecture: After the NYC Fiscal Crisis: Housing, Homelessness & Making Over NYC
- Class Discussion
Readings for Class Discussion:
- Holtzman, B. (2017). “I Am Not Co-op!”: The Struggle over Middle-Class Housing in 1970s New York. Journal of Urban History, 43(6), 864-885. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144217714759 — posted here
- (G-only) Kirchheimer, D.W. Sheltering the Homeless in New York City: Expansion in an Era of Government Contraction. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 104, No. 4 (Winter, 1989-1990), pp. 607-623 — posted here
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WEEK 8
16 October
Public Housing
Weekly Response #5 DUE @ 5p
Discussion Leads: Melanie (UG) & Tiffany (G)
- Lecture: Public Housing in the U.S. & NYC
- Class Discussion
- In-Class Activity: Watch PBS Why Do We Have Housing Projects?
Readings for Class Discussion:
- Luis Ferre-Sadurni. “The Rise and Fall of New York Public Housing: An Oral History,” The New York Times, July 9, 2018. [PDF here]
- Rotramel, A. (2021). Discarding homes: New York City public housing and single mother-led households (1963–2016). Women’s History Review, 30(2), 320–338. [On BB]
- (G-only) The Importance of Housing Affordability and Stability for Preventing and Ending Homelessness
- (G-only) Sink, T. and B. Ceh. “Relocation of urban poor in Chicago: HOPE VI policy outcomes,” Geoforum, 42, no. 1 (2011): 71-82. [On BB]
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WEEK 9
23 October
REVIEW
- Lecture: Affordable Housing and Zoning in NYC
- REVIEW for Mid-term Exam >>>>> F23 Midterm Review Sheet_URBST 222 723
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WEEK 10
30 October
MID-TERM EXAM
Essay section DUE 11/1 by 11:50p via BB
- Multiple Choice Section (in-class)
- Essay (take-home)
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WEEK 11
6 November
NYC Affordable Housing Crisis and (re)Zoning
Weekly Response #6 DUE @ 5p
Housing Paper Topic DUE @5p (submit via BB, posted under “Submit Assignments”)
>Details on Paper Topic included in Final Paper Assignment
Mid-term Essay section DUE by 11:59p via BB (posted under “Submit Assignments”)
Discussion Leads: Harry (UG), Joel (UG) & Sondra (G)
- Go over exam
- Class Discussion
- In-class Activity: Share paper topics
Readings for Class Discussion:
- Lin et.al., (2021), “In Defense of Asian American Neighborhoods,” Shelterforce.
- Sulivan, B. (2022), “New York Landlords Would Rather Keep Homes Empty Than Provide Affordable Housing,” Jacobin.
- Scally, C.P., (2014), “New York State’s Affordable Housing Developers: What They Do, How They Do It“, Shelterforce.
- Angotti, T. & Morse, S (Eds.). (2016). Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City: Terreform, Ch. 1 Land Use and Zoning Matter [posted to BB]
- (G-only) Elmedni, B., “The Mirage of Housing Affordability: An Analysis of Affordable Housing Plans in New York City,” Sage Open (2018) 1-13. (PDF or download from web here)
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WEEK 12
13 November
Gentrification
Weekly Response #7 DUE @ 5p
Discussion Leads: Samantha (UG), Shéno (UG) & Jessica(G)
- Lecture: Theories of Gentrification
- Class Discussion
Readings for Class Discussion:
- Hyra D, Fullilove M, Moulden D, et al. (2020) Contextualizing Gentrification Chaos: The Rise of the Fifth Wave. Washington, DC: Metropolitan Policy Center. [Find here and PDF]
- (G-only) Brown-Saracino, J. (2017). Explicating Divided Approaches to Gentrification and Growing Income Inequality. Annual Review of Sociology, 43(1), 515–539. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053427 [Posted to BB]
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WEEK 13
20 November
Gentrification (cont.)
Weekly Response #8 DUE @ 5p
Discussion Leads: Carlos (UG), Caudy (UG) & Sondra(G)
- Lecture: Gentrification_Displacement & Resistance
- Class Discussion
- Class Activity: Discuss papers
Readings for Class Discussion:
- Danley, Stephen, and Rasheda Weaver. 2018. “They’re Not Building It for Us”: Displacement Pressure, Unwelcomeness, and Protesting Neighborhood Investment” Societies 8, no. 3: 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8030074. Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/8/3/74
- (G-only) Clark, Caitlyn; Redden, Stephanie; and Abedin, Sakena (2020) “Resisting Gentrification: Everyday Politics & Collective Action From Oakland to Madrid,” The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 30. Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yurj/vol1/iss1/30
- (G-only) Opillard, F. (2015). Resisting the Politics of Displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Anti-gentrification Activism in the Tech Boom 2.0. European Journal of American Studies, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.11322 [posted to BB]
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WEEK 14
27 November
Housing as a Right: Movements & Alternatives
Weekly Response #9 DUE @ 5p
OPTIONAL: Submit draft for high-level feedback
Discussion Leads: Jasmine (UG) & Naomi (UG)
- Class Discussion
- Class Activity: Break-out groups to discuss progress on papers/worktime
- Class Activity: Start the film Push if time
Readings for Class Discussion:
- Jover, J. (2021). “A Global Right-to-Housing Movement Versus Financialization”. (embedded videos optional) https://metropolitics.org/A-Global-Right-to-Housing-Movement-Versus-Financialization.html
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Starecheski, A. (2019). Squatters make history in New York. American Ethnologist, 46(1), 61–74. PDF here
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WEEK 15
4 December
- Lecture: Sense of Home and Homelessness
- Class Activity: Watch Push
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WEEK 16
11 December
Last Day of Class: PRESENTATION DAY!
Upload PDF of you presentation to Blackboard by 5p!
- Paper Presentations (5 mins each)
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