SOC 3253 - Housing and Inequality

Institution:

Temple University

Subject:

Description:

This course examines 1) the institutional origins of an American housing culture and how that culture is supported financially and politically; 2) a range of issues associated with housing, specifically renters (working poor and acutely poor), homeless people, and homeowners; 3) housing subsidies as well as the recent policy effort to solve problems of poverty through homeownership; 4) the relationship between race, income and location, focusing on the “geography of opportunity;” and 5) mechanisms for rethinking how housing policy may be reorganized in the U.S.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

WWW.TEMPLE.EDU

Phone Number:

(215) 204-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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