Week 7 (10/12) – Fair and affordable housing (CD)

What is affordable housing and where does it come from? Who paid for that house you just bought? What’s foreclosure and how does it affect communities? 

Read:

DC’s Affordable Housing Toolbox: Key Housing Programs and How To Make Them Better. (2019, April 11). DC Fiscal Policy Institute.

Wogan, J. B. (2015, February). Why D.C.’s affordable housing protections are losing a war with economics. Governing.

Listen or read transcript:

Fox, C. (Host). (2022, April 7). Giving Meaning to the Word Justice with Jim Knight. (No. 8, Season 5) [Audio podcast episode]. In Mission Forward with Carrie Fox. Mission Partners.

Submit by 11am:

1) Response blog CD-3: In the podcast episode, Jubilee Housing CEO Jim Knight argues that every person should have access to housing that is safe and high quality, framing this in terms of justice. Do you agree? Is safe, high-quality housing that you can afford a right that society should protect? Why? And why do our housing markets so often fall short of this? (250 words)

2) CD org profile background research paper (CD)

In class