Gentrification, Displacement, and Housing Justice

5 credits

Explores contexts of housing injustice, racial banishment, and gentrification in cities locally and globally. Studies phenomena such as evictions, root shock, real estate speculation, smart cities, policing, environmental racism, houselessness, and housing precarity, while practicing ethnographic methods. Considers movements for housing, spatial, and racial justice that counter dispossession and build different urban futures. Course overlaps with: GEOG 477.