Housing and Homelessness

Harvard FAS

This course centers the sociological study of housing and homelessness, largely in the American context. The course is guided by three questions: (1) What is sociological about housing, and why should the study of housing be central to the discipline of sociology? (2) What have sociologists written about the long-term and day-to-day experiences of housing insecurity and homelessness? (3) How does housing inequality intersect with other dimensions of inequality? Through a combination of…