Housing Policy 2100-ERASMUS-HOPO
Outline of class meetings (topics):
1. Introduction. Defining the concepts of "housing" and ‘home’
2. Housing situation in Europe
3. Approaches to housing studies: People-Environment Studies.
Environmental/residential autobiography.
4. Environmental/residential autobiography. Discussion
5. Housing activism and housing advocacy
6. Project: Walking through the city
7. Project: Walking through the city. Discussion
8. Housing issues. Homelessness
9. Housing-as-a commodity. Housing crisis
10. Final essay. Consultations
11. Housing-as-a policy. Key housing policy goals and delivery mechanisms. Typologies
of housing policy.
12. Post-socialist model of housing policy. Housing policy in Poland
13. Project: Action research project (TBC)
14. Housing-as-a right. Housing and residential segregation. Housing policy in the US
15. Final essay. Consultations
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand main concepts in the area of housing policy.
2. Understand main approaches to the housing studies.
3. Evaluate contemporary research on housing politics.
Assessment criteria
The grade for the course is based on the following percentages for each activity in the
course:
• reading and contributing to class discussions - 20%,
• collaborating in group projects - 25%,
• final essay - 55%
Practical placement
none
Bibliography
Literature for classes will be made available in class. We will be using Google Classroom as
a repository of course materials.
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: