WEEK 1
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29 August
Introduction
- Review Syllabus (please read carefully and bring any questions to our next class session)
- Review course website & Blackboard
- Assign Discussion Leads
31 August
Housing Under Capitalism
- Lecture: Housing in a Free Market [PDF here]
- In-Class Activity:
Watch:
> 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
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5 September – NO CLASS |LABOR DAY
7 September
Housing Under Capitalism (cont.)
DISCUSSION LEADER: ARON
- Read for Class Discussion:
> Madden, D. & P. Marcuse. (2016). In Defense of Housing. Verso. [Ch. 1: Against the Commodification of Housing AND (G-only) Ch. 2: Residential Alienation] [These are non-OA readings posted to Blackboard]
>Tenement Homes: The Outsized Legacy of New York’s Notoriously Cramped Apartments by C. Nigro (2018). https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/06/07/tenement-homes-new-york-history-cramped-apartments
> Pluz, R. (2016). A History of Housing in New York City. Columbia Univ. Press. [Forward] [This is available online via QC library and posted to Blackboard] - In-Class Activity:
> Watch: Professor Wolff On The Housing Crisis: In Capitalism, We Are All On Our Own
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WEEK 3
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12 September
Racialized Housing Policies PT. 1
- Lecture: U.S. Housing Policy Pre- and Post War [PDF here]
14 September
Racialized Housing Policies PT. 1
DISCUSSION LEADER: MARCUS
- Read for Class Discussion: [ALL readings posted to Blackboard]
- 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?]
- (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]
- (G-only) Dantzler, P., Korver-Glenn, E., & Howell, J. (2022). What Does Racial Capitalism Have to Do With Cities and Communities? City & Community, 153568412211039.
Listen To for Class Discussion:
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WEEK 4
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19 September
Racialized Housing Policies PT. 2
- Lecture: Continued Legacies of Housing Discrimination [PDF]
- In-Class Activity:
> Listen to first ½ of Reveal Podcast: The red line: Racial disparities in lending [walking in the rain]
21 September
Racialized Housing Policies PT. 2
DISCUSSION LEADERS: MARY & NIHARIKA
- Read for Class Discussion:
- Taylor, K-Y. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. UNC Press (2019). [Introduction AND (G-only) Ch. 3: Forced Integration] this should be available digitally via QC library, but a PDF is also posted to BB
- Jacobin: How Real Estate Agents Keep Cities Segregated
Listen to for Class Discussion:- Rest of Reveal Podcast: The red line: Racial disparities in lending
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WEEK 5
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26 September
NO CLASS
28 September
Housing Policy Post-NYC Fiscal Crisis
DISCUSSION LEADERS: RUTH & KATIA
- Lecture: After the NYC Fiscal Crisis: Housing, Homelessness & Making Over NYC [PDF here]
- Read for Class Discussion:
- Reshaping New York: Virtual Tour
- Black Dispossession and the Making of Downtown Flushing by Tarry Hum
- The quiet, massive rezoning of New York
- Housing New York: A Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan [Executive Summary & Introduction AND (G-only) Ch. 4]
- (G-only) Backsliding Support and Backfiring Messaging: The Homelessness Conversation Needs a Reframe
Class Activity:
> Introduce Final Paper Assignment
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WEEK 6 – WEEK 7
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3 October
Public Housing
- Lecture: Public Housing in the U.S. & NYC [PDF here]
- In-Class Activity: Watch: Why Do We Have Housing Projects?, PBS Origins
5 October: NO CLASS
10 October: NO CLASS
12 October – Class meets in Rosenthal Library, Room 225
Public Housing (cont.)
DISCUSSION LEADER: ANN JENICA
Read 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 sans images on BB]
- Bloom, N. D. (2009). Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. [Introduction] [On BB]
- 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) Goetz, E. (2011). Gentrification in Black and White: The Racial Impact of Public Housing Demolition in American Cities. Urban Studies, 48(8), 1581–1604. [On BB]
- (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 8
NYC Affordable Housing Crisis and (re)Zoning
October 17
> Lecture: Zoning & Affordable Housing in NYC [PDF]
October 19
DISCUSSION LEADERS: Zachary & Mariyah
- De Blasio’s Housing Legacy In 9 Graphics (link)
- Lin et.al., (2021), “In Defense of Asian American Neighborhoods,” Shelterforce. (link)
- Angotti, T. & Morse, S (Eds.). (2016). Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in
New York City: Terreform [Ch. 3 Williamsburg: Zoning out Latinos] [Posted to BB] - (G-only) Full Report: Why Hasn’t the “Most Ambitious Affordable Housing Program” Produced a More Affordable City? [p. 24 “Homelessness” to end] (link)
- (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 here)
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WEEK 9
Midterm Review + Midterm
October 24
Midterm Review Sheet [Midterm Review Sheet_URBST 222 723 PDF]
October 26
MID-TERM EXAM
> Multiple Choice section (in-class)
> Essay section (take-home, DUE 10/27 @ 10p uploaded to Blackboard)
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WEEK 10
Housing Financialization & the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
October 31
Lecture: Financialization of Housing [PDF]
November 2
DISCUSSION LEADERS: John & Anisa
Read for Class Discussion:
- Brenner, N., Marcuse, P., & Mayer, M. (Eds.). (2012). Cities for people, not for profit: Critical urban theory and the right to the city. Routledge. [Ch.13 :A Critical Approach to Solving the Housing Problem by Peter Marcuse] [posted to 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
- (G-only) Aalbers, M. B., “Financial geography II: Financial geographies of housing and real estate,” Progress in Human Geography, 43, no. 2 (2019): 376–87. [posted to BB]
- (G-only) Fields, D., “Unwilling Subjects of Financialization,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41, no. 4 (2017): 588–603. [posted to BB]
Listen to for Class Discussion:
- The Financialization of Housing and Its Implications for Community Development, by Benjamin Teresa, Shelterforce
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WEEK 11
Global Perspectives on Housing Financialization
November 7
Lecture: Housing Financialization: global examples [PDF]
November 9
DISCUSSION LEADERS: Afia & Michael
Read for Class Discussion:
- Gonick, S.L. (2021). Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in
Madrid. Stanford Univ. Press. [Ch. 3: Homeownership’s Urbanism] [posted to BB] - Rolnik, R. (2019). Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance. Verso. [Ch. 1: The Global Financialization of Housing AND (G-only) Ch. 3: Exporting the Model] [posted to BB]
- (G-only) “Let Them Eat Real Estate”, buy Dan Darrah, Jacobin – link
In-Class Activity:
> Break out groups to discuss your paper topics/ research questions with classmates
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WEEK 12
Gentrification
November 14
Lecture: Theories of Gentrification [PDF]
November 16
Discussion Leads: Christian & Ping
Read for Class Discussion:
- Bondi, L., “Gender Divisions and Gentrification: A Critique,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 16, no. 2 (1991): 190–98. [posted to BB]
- Smith, N., “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy,” Antipode, 34, no. 3 (2002): 427–450. [posted to BB]
- (G-only) Hyra et. al., 2020. “Contextualizing Gentrification Chaos: The Rise of the Fifth Wave”. https://www.american.edu/spa/metro-policy/upload/contextualizing-gentrification-chaos.pdf
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GentrificationNovember 21
Lecture: Gentrification: Displacement & Resistance [PDF]November 23
Discussion Leads: Thomas & Trevon
Read for Class Discussion:- Atkinson, R. (2000). The hidden costs of gentrification: Displacement in central London. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 15(4), 307–326. [posted to BB]
- Danley, S., & Weaver, R. (2018). “They’re Not Building It for Us”: Displacement Pressure, Unwelcomeness, and Protesting Neighborhood Investment. Societies, 8(3), 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc8030074. [posted to BB]
- (G-only) Valli, C., “A sense of displacement: Long-time residents ́ feelings of displacement in gentrifying Bushwick, New York,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Open Access here.
In-Class Activity:
> Rapid Research: Local Anti-gentrification Activism
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WEEK 14
Housing Precarity & Ontological Security
November 28
Lecture: Lecture: Sense of Home & Homelessness [PDF]
November 30
Discussion Leads: Vibha & Edwin
Read for Class Discussion:
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- Bendiner-Viani, G., & Saegert, S., “Making Housing Home: Speaking of Places,” Places, 19, no. 2 (2007). [Link]
- Duong, B., 2022, “What Can Be Done When LIHTC Affordability Restrictions Expire?” Shelterforce. [Link]
- Fullilove, M. T. (2001). Root shock: The consequences of African American dispossession. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 78(1), 72–80. https://doi.org/10.1093/jurban/78.1.72 [Link]
- (G-only) Dupuis, A. & Thorns, D.C., “Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security,” The Editorial Board of The Sociological Review (1998). [posted to BB]
- (G-only) Hiscock, R., Kearns, A., MacIntyre, S., & Ellaway, A. (2001). Ontological Security and Psycho-Social Benefits from the Home: Qualitative Evidence on Issues of Tenure. Housing, Theory and Society, 18(1–2), 50–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036090120617 [posted to BB]
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WEEK 15
Housing as a Right: Movements & Alternatives
December 5
Discussion Leads: Evan & Mamadou
Read for Class Discussion:
- Rowe, M., Engelsman, U., & Southern, A. (2016).“Community Land Trusts – a radical or reformist response to The Housing Question today?”. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 15(3), 590–615. [Link]
- Díaz-Parra, I., & Mena, J. C. (2015). “Squatting, the 15-M Movement, and Struggles for Housing in the Context of the Spanish Social Crisis”. Human Geography, 8(1), 40–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/194277861500800103 [posted to BB]
- (G-only) Sazama, G. W. “Lessons from the History of Affordable Housing Cooperatives in the United States: A Case Study in American Affordable Housing Policy,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 59, no. 4 (2000): 573–608.[posted to BB]
- (G-only) Newman, K., & Goetz, E. (2016). “Reclaiming neighborhood from the inside out: Regionalism, globalization, and critical community development”. Urban Geography, 37(5), 685–699. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2015.1096116 [posted to BB]
In-Class Activity:Watch:
- CLTs Explained by John Davis [Link]
- Holding Ground [Link]
- Researcher proposes how to solve the U.S. affordable housing crisis [Link]
- Building a Housing Movement [Link]
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