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Jonathan Glick
GEOG 445
Seattle Campus
Focuses on the geography of housing, especially in the United States. Topics include: the American dream of home ownership; housing affordability and differential access to home ownership; homelessness; the history of public housing; hosing demography; residential mobility and neighborhood change, and discrimination in the housing market. Offered: Sp.
Class description
The "housing question" has been a focus of academics, policy makers and activists since the 19th century. Given the working of property markets, adequate housing in desirable locations is often not affordable to households of modest means. This course reviews some of the ways housing policy in the United States has promoted more adequate housing as well as some criticisms of how it has fallen short of its goals. We will consider housing at multiple geographic scales, from within the house itself to the neighborhood and beyond.
Student learning goals
To gain a greater understanding the United States housing market from class readings, popular media, and peers.
To understand how public policy affects the production of housing, affordability, and livability
To employ geographic concepts like space and scale in academic writing
General method of instruction
Class meetings will consist of lecture, and small and large group discussions, focusing on particular readings. We will relate the readings to the housing issues as studied in the discipline of geography, as represented in the media, and as experienced in your own lives. As instructor, I will deliver mini-lectures clarifying some of the main points of the reading and providing context within the field of geography.
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
