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                     Undergraduate program

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CP 4620: Housing and Real Estate Economics

Texts

  • Real Estate Development: Principles and Process (2nd edition), Miles, Haney and Berens, 1995

  • Modern Housing for America, Radford, 1996

  • Selected readings from Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing, Journal of the American Planning Association, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Journal, Real Estate Investor, Real Estate Review and U.S. Government publications

 

Course Schedule

  • Introduction and Overview

  • Urban Development Patterns

  • Empirical Descriptions

  • Analysis and Explanation

  • Economics of Durable Goods

  • Filtering and the Short Run

  • Dominance of the Existing Stock

  • Housing Economic Theory and Analyses

  • Income Elasticity of Demand

  • Structure of Supply Sector

  • Market Dynamics

  • Real Estate Research - Institutional Context

  • Evolving Professional Standards

  • Institutional Structure and Pressures

  • Applied Real Estate Research in Housing

  • Market Opportunities Analyses

  • Marketability Analyses/Pricing Studies,

  • Consumer Research

  • Market Analysis - Demand

  • Market Analysis - Supply

  • Market Analysis - Markets

  • Affordable Housing Market Research

  • Exam

  • Overview of National Housing Policy

  • Measuring Housing Needs

  • Homelessness

  • Magnitude, Social and Demographic

  • Characteristics of the Homeless Population

  • History of Housing Policy

  • Depression Era Policy Initiatives

  • Federal Housing Administration

  • Secondary Mortgage Markets

  • Public Housing

  • Post WWII Policies

  • Urban Renewal, Public Housing

  • Section 202 Elderly Housing,

  • Workable Program for Community Improvement

  • Housing Policy in the 1960s

  • Rent Supplements, Model Cities

  • Housing Act of 1968 (Sections 235 and 236)

  • Housing Policy in the 1970's

  • Experimental Housing Allowance Program

  • Housing Act of 1974, (Community Development

  • Block Grants, Section 8)

  • Housing Policy in the 1980s

  • Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program

  • Nonprofit Housing Suppliers

  • Housing Policy in the 1990s

  • Preservation of the Existing Stock

  • Local Housing Initiatives

  • Affordable Housing, Fair Housing

  • Rent Control

  • Theories of Neighborhood Change

  • Theories of Neighborhood Change

  • Gentrification Displacement

  • Review and Evaluation