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Content: The module draws on global experience, exploring different approaches to housing development and settlement upgrading. TheÌýpossible roles played by the state, market and civil society are examined. Land, finance, infrastructure, organisational capacity,Ìýgovernance and regulation receive particular attention. In addition to classroom lectures, participants in this module work in groups to: (1) track and analyse the historical development andÌýimplementation of housing policy within a specific national/urban context; and (2) research and pitch a housingÌýintervention designed to promoteÌýadequate, affordable, accessible, and viable urban housing in a specific urban context. Participants are also supported to produce an assessed individual housing story that illustrates how interaction(s) between personal and political contexts shape housing options and outcomes.

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Typical Teaching Delivery: This module is taught over 9 weekly classes in Term 2

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Indicative Topics (based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes):

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Unit 1 – Introduction: How do Housing and Settlement Upgrading Policies Contribute to Development?

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Unit 2 – Land: How is Land for Housing and Settlement Upgrading Obtained, Held and Administered?

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Unit 3 – Finance: How is Affordable Housing and Settlement Upgrading Financed

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Unit 4 – Regulations: Playing with the Rules of the Game - Making Regulations work for the Urban Poor

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Unit 5 – Group Presentations 1: Housing Policy Histories

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Unit 6 – London Walking Tour: Struggling for (Genuinely) Affordable Housing in London

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Unit 7 – Affordable Housing in the Age of Financialisation + Rediscovering Rental Housing and Rent Control(s)

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Unit 8 – Group Presentations 2: Pitching Practical Options for Securing Adequate, Affordable, Accessible and Viable Housing

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Unit 9 – Assignment Workshop: Towards the Production of a Housing Story

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Module Aims: This module is designed to provide participants with:

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• An understanding of housing practice as a development entry point that can build on complex multi-sectoral inputs to produce multiple pro-poor outcomes.
• An understanding of the development of national and metropolitan housing policies and the economic and political contexts from which they have emerged.
• An appreciation of the complex role that land, regulation and financial markets play in the provision of housing.
• Knowledge of alternative approaches to affordable housing delivery (programmes and projects) and the roles of the state, market and civil society in the maintenance and management of housing, with particular emphasis on housing for marginalised urban communities.
• An appreciation of the ways in which housing experience integrates the personal and the political.