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11.40 Intro. to Housing & Community Development

Fall l998 DUSP INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTRUCTORS: Phillip Clay Rm 3-234 Ex. 3-6164 PLCLAY@MIT.EDU Lang Keyes Rm 9-517 Ex. 3-1540 LKEYES@MIT.EDU Time: Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-4 PM Place: Room 10-401 COURSE OBJECTIVES As an introduction to the field of Housing, Community and Economic Development (HCED), the course is structured to: (1) advance students' understanding of how public policy and private markets impact housing, economic development and the local economy (2) provide an overview of techniques for framing public and private interventions to meet housing and community development agendas with particular emphasis on the inner city and low income neighborhoods (3) review and critique programs, policies and strategies that are, and might be directed at local development (4) give students an opportunity to reflect on their personal sense of the "housing and community development" process and the various roles that planners play in implementing that process Given that the quest for effective practice underlies the HCED philosophy, the course emphasizes strategic analysis of the institutional contexts within which public, nonprofit and private actions directed at housing, employment and community development are implemented. READINGS A course reader will be available in Rotch Library and the Student Reading Room. The readings can be purchased at Graphic Arts. REQUIREMENTS Students are expected to do the required reading; to participate in class discussions and to hand in four memos. Expectations for the memos, their form, purpose, content, setting etc., will be discussed in detail in class. GRADE The final grade will be based on: class participation 35% memos 65% CLASS OUTLINE Part I: Setting the Framework and Context SEPTEMBER Week I 10: Introduction and Course Overview Week II 15: Housing and Community Development in Context: Urban Policy for the 90's 17: Neighborhood Theory: People, Place and Context Week III 22: The Concept of Community 24: The Metropolitan Context Week IV 29: Community Development I: Origins and Transformations OCTOBER 1: Community Development II: The Current Scene First Memo Due Part II: Housing and Community Development Week V 6: Historic Perspective I 8: Historic Perspective II Week VI 13: NO CLASS [Monday's classes instead] 15: The Housing Market Week VII 20: Rental Housing I 22: Rental Housing II Second Memo Due Week VIII 27: Managing the Housing Stock 29: Case Study: The Community Builders and Managing Subsidized Housing NOVEMBER Week IX 3: Public Housing and Community Development 5: Case Study: HUD's Urban Revitalization Demonstration (URD) in Boston Part III: Economic Development and Jobs Week X 10: Community Economic Development: the Issues, the Record and the Debates 12: Case Study: Economic Development Strategies and the City of Boston Third Memo Due Week XI 17: Sources of Capital 19: Microenterprise: Case Study Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation Week XII 24: Empowerment Zones 26: THANKSGIVING: DECEMBER Week XIII 1: Welfare ,Work and Job Training I 3: Welfare, Work and Job Training II WEEK XIV 8: Reinventing HUD I 10: Reinventing HUD II Plus Summing Up: Where Do We Go From Here? Course Reflections etc. Fourth Memo Due

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