UPCD 724 - Urban Economics and Housing Policies

3 Credit(s)

Description:
This course will provide students with the ability to analyze phenomena related to cities and urbanized areas such as labor markets, poverty, urban amenities, transportation, congestion and principally, housing. Students completing this course will gain a working knowledge of urban policies and programs, the social context within which these policies and programs have been developed, and an understanding of the theory by which these phenomena can be explained, developed primarily using microeconomics, as well as social policy, urban and regional planning and politics. Finally, students will be able to review and critically evaluate stylized models in which policies influence the choices of key actors within defined markets and which result in direct and indirect outcome measures related to efficiency, effectiveness and equity. In each of these dimensions of inquiry, the primary application area of interest will be housing, and the primary conceptual predicate will be the interaction between the state and the market in developing policy.

Enrollment Requirements:
UPCD 600 and UPCD 620

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