GEO 320 Urban Geography Fall 2007
Department of Geography and Meteorology, Valparaiso University

Lecture Outline

Housing

Housing as Commodity vs. Housing as Home

  • Use Value and Exchange Value of Housing

Housing Submarkets

Trends in Housing

  • Growth in Homeownership
  • Affordability of Homeownership
  • The Decline of Renting in the US
  • Shift from Private Renting and Public Housing to Homeownership in Britain
  • Public Housing in the USA
  • Shift from supply-side policies to demand-side intervention.

Homelessness