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:

  • ‘Hood History: The South Bronx, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and East New York in Historical Perspective [@16:35, Craig Wilder]

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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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  WEEK 13
  Gentrification

  November 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:

• • 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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December 7 – PRESENTATION DAY

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