Concentration

Community Development and Housing

This concentration features three tracks: (1) Community Based Planning; (2) Community, Housing, Land, and Finance; (3) Community Health and Justice. The community development and housing concentration and specialty tracks expose students to the practices and theory of community development, housing, and health. Course work examines: the history and practice of community development; the processes that shape urban change; the operations of housing markets and housing finance; the ways in which affordable housing is built and maintained; participatory and community planning methods; issues of gender, race, class, and power; and social and economic policy formation, implementation, and evaluation, and environmental justice. This concentration meets the needs of students with a range of interests including community and community economic development and finance, housing development and rehabilitation, community planning and revitalization, urban poverty, and health. Students take at least three of the required courses and at least four courses total in the concentration. Recommended methods courses include Advanced Qualitative Methods (34:833:628) and Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Planners (34:970:591). A graduate planning studio in community development is recommended as an additional course.

Community-Based Planning Track

Required Courses (choose at least three of these courses)

34:970:563 Community Development (Fall)
34:970:564 Community Planning and Engagement in the US and Global South (TBD)
34:970:542 Community Organizing (S24)
34:970:XXX Placemaking (TBD)
34:833:612 Non-profit and Community Development Finance (S24)
34:833:570 Non-profit Management (S24)

Community, Housing, Land, and Finance Track

Required Courses (choose at least three of these courses)

34:970:563 Community Development (Fall)
34:970:529 Principles of Housing (F24)
34:970:530 International Urbanization and Housing Issues (F24, alt. years)
34:970:528 Housing Economics and Markets (S25, alt. years)
34:970:XXX Affordable Housing (S25)
34:970:605 Planning Real Estate Analysis (Fall)
34:833:612 Non-profit and Community Development Finance (S24)

Community Health and Justice Track

Required Courses (choose at least three of these courses)

34:970:563 Community Development (Fall)
34:970:532 Bridging Public Health and Urban Planning (Fall)
34:970:555 Transportation and Equity (S25, alt. years)
34:970:574 Environmental Justice, Activism, and Change (S26)
34:970:XXX Placemaking (TBD)
34:833:513 Issues in Health Disparities (Spring)
34:833:552 Education Policy, Community Development and Social Justice (F23)

Recommended Courses

(choose at least one additional course, which can include the required courses you did not choose above, for a total of four)

34:970:521 Historic Preservation (Spring)
34:970:528 Housing Economics and Markets (S25 alt. years)
34:970:529 Principles of Housing (F24)
34:970:530 International Urbanization and Housing Issues (F24, alt. years)
34:970:532 Bridging Public Health and Urban Planning (Fall)
34:970:574 Environmental Justice, Activism, and Change (S26)
34:970:594 Program Evaluation (prereq BQM; Discrete Methods or Multivariate Methods) (TBD)
34:970:605 Planning Real Estate Analysis (Fall)
34:970:619 Environmental Economics and Policy (F23, alt. years)
34:970:622 Urban Redevelopment (Fall)
34:970:653 Case Study Methods (S24, alt. years)
34:970:564 Community Planning and Engagement in the US and Global South (TBD)
34:833:540 State and Local Public Finance (F24)
34:833:552 Education Policy and Social Justice (F24)
34:833:570 Non-profit Management (S24)
34:833:585 American Social Policy (S24)
34:833:595 Economics of Poverty (F25)
34:833:612 Non-profit and Community Development Finance (S24)