Course ID
039366
Course Description
This course provides future practitioners with the opportunity to develop expertise with the factors, processes, programs, and stakeholders that influence housing production, housing markets, housing finance, and homebuilding in the United States.
To begin, the course explores Federal programs, policies, and stakeholders that underpin a great deal of the market for housing. Building on this, the course analyzes housing affordability and the attendant programs and tools. Then, the course shifts to the house itself and its systems, how they tend to be constructed, and innovation within the homebuilding process. Finally, the course examines housing through a financial lens empirically examining mortgages, valuation, securitization, and default. The development and management of both housing and downtown commercial buildings are heavily rooted in analytical techniques for problem analysis, projection, and evaluation, and communication of this information in public discourse. This course will ask students to analyze decisions made by planners, homebuilders, mortgage market actors, affordable housing developers, and others. It will demand that students communicate clearly about how they arrived at their conclusions including the potential implications of their analyses.
To begin, the course explores Federal programs, policies, and stakeholders that underpin a great deal of the market for housing. Building on this, the course analyzes housing affordability and the attendant programs and tools. Then, the course shifts to the house itself and its systems, how they tend to be constructed, and innovation within the homebuilding process. Finally, the course examines housing through a financial lens empirically examining mortgages, valuation, securitization, and default. The development and management of both housing and downtown commercial buildings are heavily rooted in analytical techniques for problem analysis, projection, and evaluation, and communication of this information in public discourse. This course will ask students to analyze decisions made by planners, homebuilders, mortgage market actors, affordable housing developers, and others. It will demand that students communicate clearly about how they arrived at their conclusions including the potential implications of their analyses.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Graduate
Course Requisites
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No