Module-Policies-2 Housing Policy 2100-SPP-L-D4MPHP
Scope - Housing policy in the European Union, with a particular focus on the specific characteristics of Central and Eastern Europe.
Key Topics:
- Legal definitions and forms of housing;
- The social and individual significance of housing;
- Types of housing research distinguished in housing studies;
- Rights and international documents related to housing;
- Models and functions of housing policy;
- Instruments of housing policy;
- Housing situation in Central and Eastern Europe.
Outline of class meetings (topics):
1. Introduction. Defining the concepts of 'housing' and ‘home’
2. Housing sitution in Central and Eastern 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. Rights and international documents related to housing
15. Final essay. Consultations
Prerequisites (description)
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge: The graduate knows and understands:
- At an advanced level, the functioning of social and political institutions in specific areas of social and public policy, with particular emphasis on housing policy (K_W05).
- At an advanced level, selected theories conceptualizing the relationships between elements of the political process, characteristic of political science and administration—particularly in the subdiscipline of social policy and public policy, in the context of housing policy (K_W06).
- The normative and ethical conditions of scientific and practical activities in the field of social and public policy, particularly regarding housing policy (K_W08).
Skills: The graduate is able to:
- Precisely identify the economic, social, economic, and cultural determinants of specific social phenomena and apply approaches and theories to interpret detailed relationships between phenomena in the field of social and public policy, particularly regarding housing policy (K_U03).
- At an advanced level, demonstrate the relationships between axionormative assumptions and proposed practical solutions in the field of social and public policy, particularly regarding housing policy (K_U05).
Assessment criteria
Methods and Assessment Criteria:
- Written assignment,
- A maximum of two absences allowed.
Practical placement
Not applicable.
Bibliography
F. Clapham, W. A. V. Clark, K. Gibb (eds.) (2012) The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd.
The literature will be made available to students during the classes.
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Term 2024L:
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Notes
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