Housing and Social Stratification in the United States

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Investigates housing politics and economics from the 1800s to the present. Focuses on the role of housing in structuring racialized class relations and reproducing material inequities. Attends to ruptures and continuities in housing systems against the backdrop of technological, financial, and social innovation. Deploys a deeply interdisciplinary set of readings to explore a wide range of social and economic formations such as urbanization, suburbanization, segregation, urban renewal, gentrification, homelessness, and YIMBYism.