SUP 600/GSD 5213
POLICY-MAKING IN URBAN SETTINGS
Days and Times:
Location:
Monday and Wednesday, 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
Harvard Kennedy School of Government – L230
Version 1 August 25, 2015
Instructor Information:
HKS Office:
Office Hours:
Telephone:
E-mail:
James Carras
124 Mt Auburn St, Suite 100, Room 109
By appointment especially before and after class and on Tuesday
954.415.2022
James_Carras@hks.harvard.edu
Course Assistant:
E-mail:
Telephone:
Faculty Assistant:
Office:
Telephone:
E-mail:
Jennifer Angarita
Jennifer_Angarita@hks16.harvard.edu
214. 668.4906
Gina Abbadessa
Taubman 485
617-495-8217,
gina_abbadessa@hks.harvard.edu
Description:
This course reviews policy-making in urban areas, focusing on differing economic, demographic,
institutional and political settings. Course topics include a critical analysis of the continuing viability
of cities in the context of current economic and demographic dynamics, fiscal stress, governance,
economic development, poverty and race, drugs, homelessness, federal urban policy, and survival
strategies for declining cities.
The course will consider economic development, social equity and job growth in the context of
metropolitan regions, and will address federal, state and local government strategies for
expanding community economic development and affordable housing opportunities. Of special
concern will be the continuing spatial and racial isolation and concentration of low-income
populations, especially minority populations residing in urban communities including older,
industrial cities.
The course will examine how market forces and pressures affect the availability of affordable
housing, exacerbate the impacts of gentrification and inhibit the availability of capital for
affordable housing and economic development. It will also examine how issues around growing
housing affordability problems, the changing structure of capital markets, the reduction of lowskilled jobs in central city locations, and racial discrimination combine to limit housing and
employment opportunities.
During the semester, students will prepare two policy memoranda and complete a final paper
consisting of a policy proposal to address these issues.
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OUTLINE: Using examples to revitalize distressed in urban communities, the class begins with a
discussion of the history of urban policy focusing on addressing decline and promoting
revitalization. These initial discussions will highlight the major course themes including housing
market dynamics, demographic change, economic opportunity, capital markets and metropolitan
development. The course will examine the ways issues of race, ethnicity, and class are reflected in
the public deliberation about housing, community and urban economic development policies and
programs.
Following this introduction, the course is divided into five modules. First, the course examines
social equity and economic opportunity. This examination is following by a module dedicated to
urban policy that results in the creation of affordable housing, both homeownership and rental.
Next, the course explores the important role that the low of private capital plays in the provision
of affordable housing, both rental and homeownership and evaluates efforts to expand economic
opportunities for lower-income and/or minority communities. Then, the course explores the
concept of community, assesses neighborhood and community scale interventions and considers
a range of strategies to promote community economic development. Finally, the last section of the
course is dedicated to new policy approaches including sustainable regional planning, health and
access to food, and human capacity development including promise zones and similar initiatives.
AUDIENCE: Open to all students from the Harvard Kennedy School and Graduate School of
Design. The course is cross-listed at the Graduate School of Design as GSD 5213. Students from
other faculties with interests in housing, community and economic development issues are also
encouraged to participate.
EXPECTATIONS: Students are expected to attend all classes. If you are going to miss class, you
need to get in touch with me. The only excused absences are medical, family and religions issues.
Classes will discuss both required readings and case material. The course should help students
build a base of fundamental understanding of urban-related policies enabling them to better
understand and weight the benefit of federal, state or local housing, community and economic
development programs and initiatives.
In addition to completing the required readings and participating in all class and case discussions,
students will be expected to complete two written assignments and a final paper.
Policy Memo One:
Policy Memo Two;
Final Policy Paper:
Due: September 30
Due: November 9
Due December 11
GRADES:
Students will be evaluated on their contribution to case and class discussions as well as two policy
memos, a final policy paper and in-class presentation.
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Class participation:
Brief Policy Memo 1 (three to five pages)
Brief Policy Memo 2 (three to five pages)
Final paper
20 percent
20 percent
20 percent
40 percent
The Harvard Kennedy School of Government has a recommended distribution of grades that
I will use as a guideline in determining final grades.
MATERIALS: There is no textbook for the course. Most of the course readings are available online
and on the course web site or in the Harvard Kennedy School Library. Links to online resources are
noted in the reading list.
ACADEMIC HONESTY
Students must observe Kennedy School and Harvard University rules regarding the citation of
sources. Any sentences or paragraphs taken verbatim from the writing of (or interviews with) any
other person or persons, or from your own writing that has been published elsewhere, must be
placed in quotation marks and their source must be clearly identified. Changing the wording of a
sentence or passage slightly does not evade the requirement for citation. Indeed, whenever you are
drawing an important argument or insight from someone else, even if you reword it into your own
words, a reference to the source is required. Including material from others in the assignments
without appropriate quotation marks and citations is regarded, as a matter of School and University
policy, as a serious violation of academic and professional standards and can lead to a failing grade
in the course, failure to graduate, and even expulsion from the University.
Source: Harvard Kennedy School Course Syllabus – IGA-408M: Learning from the Failure of Climate
Policy, Professor David Keith, Spring 2014
DETAILED READING LIST and SCHEDULE OF CLASS TOPICS
NOTE: ** INDICATES A REQUIRED READING OR REQUIRED CASE
Shopping Day: August 31, 2015
I. Social Equity and Income Inequality
September 2: Federal Urban Policy – Public Housing, Urban Renewal and the Great Society to
Today.
For this opening class, the history of Federal Urban Policy will be discussed and students will
examine and discuss key indicators of urban physical decline and the upgrading of the quality of
life standards for those who live in low-opportunity, urban communities.
For students new to the urban policy field, especially of housing, community and economic
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development policy, should quickly scan the article by Vicki Been and Ingrid Ellen. Those
unfamiliar with the wide range of programs (and associated jargon and alphabet soup of agencies
names) that comprise urban policy in the United States are encouraged to review sections the
2011 Advocates’ Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy, including an excellent
glossary of terms which is useful throughout the course.
**The National Report Card on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University Center for Policy and
Inequality
http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/center_events_sotu.html
**Alan Berube, “All Cities Are Not Created Unequal,” Brookings Institution,
http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/02/cities-unequal-berube
Mallach, Alan, “Facing the Urban Challenge: The Federal Government and America’s Older
Distressed Cities,” A paper prepared for the What Works Collaborative. June 2010 (ONLINE AT
http://www.urban.org/publications/1001392.html
NLIHC, 2014 Advocates’ Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy, (ONLINE at
http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/2014-Advocates-Guide.pdf)
September 4: The Geography of Opportunity – Key Indicators
** Galster, George C. “The Mechanisms of Neighborhood Effects: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Implications,” Paper for presentation at the ESRC Seminar “Neighborhood Effects: Theory and
Evidence” St. Andrews University, Scotland England, February, 2010 (DOWNLOAD ONLINE
AT
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCYQFjAA&url=h
ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F228614768_The_Mechanism_(s)_of_N
eighborhood_Effects._Theory_Evidence_and_Policy_Implications%2Ffile%2Fe0b4952a63347672c
0.pdf&ei=9v18U7zyMI6Mqgax-YDwBw&usg=AFQjCNHFwslQgvuTVasP2YmLj1rKAMLQA&bvm=bv.67229260,d.b2k
**Stuart Rosenfeld, “Where Do Poor Renters Live in Our Cities,” in Revisiting Rental Housing pp.
59-92 ONLINE AT http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/publications/where-poor-renters-liveour-cities
George C. Galster and Sean P. Killen, "The Geography of Metropolitan Opportunity: A
Reconnaissance and Conceptual Framework," Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 6, Issue 1, (1995), pp.
7-43. ONLINE AT
http://content.knowledgeplex.org/kp2/kp/kp/text_document_summary/scholarly_article/relfiles/
hpd_0601_galster2.pdf
Briggs, Xavier de Souza, Susan J. Popkin and John Goering, Moving to Opportunity: The Story of
an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty, Oxford University Press, 2010. (HKS LIBRARY)
September 7 LABOR DAY NO CLASS
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September 9: The Social Costs of Concentrated Poverty
**Evidence Matters: Understanding Neighborhood Effects of Concentrated Poverty (ONLINE AT
http://www.huduser.org/portal/periodicals/em/winter11/highlight2.html
Alan Berube and Bruce Katz, “Katrina’s Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty across
America,” The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, October 2005. (ON LINE AT
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2005/10/poverty-berube
Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff, “Durable Inequality, Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes,
and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods,” in Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf,
and Karla Hoff, eds., Poverty Traps (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006) pp.176-203.
(ONLINE AT http://scholar.harvard.edu/sampson/files/2006_ptraps_morenoff.pdf
September 14: Addressing Concentrated Poverty and Race - Policy Issues
**Angela Glover Blackwell, “America’s Tomorrow: Race, Place and the Equity Agenda,” p. 133,
http://whatworksforamerica.org/pdf/whatworks_fullbook.pdf
**Belsky E. and Fauth, J. “Crossing Over to an Improved Era of Community Development.”
Investing In What Works for America’s Communities: Essays on People, Place, and Purpose. Pgs.
72-103. Retrieved from: http://whatworksforamerica.org/pdf/whatworks_fullbook.pdf
**Smith, J. and Brooks, A. “Transit-Oriented Development is Good Community Development.”
Investing In What Works for America’s Communities: Essays on People, Place, and Purpose. Pgs.
255-263. Retrieved from: http://whatworksforamerica.org/pdf/whatworks_fullbook.pdf
**Xavier de Souza Briggs, “Social Capital: Easy Beauty or Meaningful Resource,” Journal of the
American Planning Association, Volume 70, Issue 2, (Spring 2004), pp. 151-158.
ONLINE AT
http://www.tandfonline.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdf/10.1080/01944360408976369
**Xavier de Souza Briggs, “Networks, Power, and a Dual Agenda: New Lessons and Strategies for
Old Community Building Dilemmas,” Working Smarter in Community Development Knowledge-inAction Brief 07-3 (June 2007) http://web.mit.edu/workingsmarter/media/pdf-ws-kia-brief0703.pdf
**Robert J. Sampson “Networks and Neighborhoods” in Helen McCarty, Paul Miller, and Paul
Skidmore, eds., Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World, (London, Demos, 2004)
pp. 157-166.(ONLINE AT http://www.demos.co.uk/files/networklogic.pdf?1240939425
II. The Challenges of Developing Affordable Homeownership and Rental Housing
September 16: Current Rental Housing Policy Issues
**William C. Apgar, “Rethinking Rental Housing,” Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard
University, Working Paper W04-11, December 2004. Read pages 1 to 9, skim remainder. (ONLINE
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AT http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/w04-11.pdf
**Joint Center for Housing Studies, America’s Rental Housing: Meeting Challenges, Building on
Opportunities (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011) (ONLINE AT
http://www.macfound.org/media/article_pdfs/AMERICASRENTALHOUSING-2011.PDF
**Bruce Katz and Margery Austin Turner, “Rethinking U.S. Rental Housing Policy: Build of State and
Local Innovtions” a paper prepared for Revisiting Rental Housing: A National Policy Summit,
(ONLINE AT http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2007/02/28metropolitanpolicy-katzopp08
Eric S. Belsky and Rachel Bogardus Drew, “Taking Stock of the Nation’s Rental Housing Challenges
and a Half Century of Public Policy Responses,” a paper prepared for Revisiting Rental Housing
(ONLINE AT
http://jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/rr07-1_belsky_drew.pdf
Anthony Downs, “Introduction: Why Rental Housing Is the Neglected Child of American Shelter," in
Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky, editors, Revisiting Rental Housing (Washington, DC:
Brookings Institution Press, 2008) (HKS LIBRARY) or ONLINE:
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/press/books/2008/revisitingrentalhousing/revisitingrental
housing_chapter.pdf
Urban Institute, Housing Assistance Matters Initiative, Review rental housing data for your county,
http://www.urban.org/housingaffordability/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_ca
mpaign=UI%20Update&utm_content=Mar+2014+-+1st+Thursday
September 21: Cabrini Green R.I.P – What Now for Extremely Low-Income Residents?
**Susan J. Popkin, Mary K. Cunningham, and Martha Burt, “Public Housing Transformation and the
Hard to House,” Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 16, Issue 1, (2005) pp.1-24. (ONLINE AT
http://www.urban.org/publications/311178.html
**See Comments on the Popkin, Cunningham and Burt articles by Michael Kelly and Carla Javits,
in Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 16, Issue 1, (2005) pp. 25-51
http://www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?id=90878 and
http://www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?id=90879
Margery Austin Turner and others “Severely Distressed Public Housing: The Costs of Inaction,”
The Urban Institute, March 2007. (ONLINE AT http://www.urban.org/publications/411444.html
September 23: Homeownership: The American Dream, Alive or Dying?
**Robert J. Shiller, “Mom, Apple Pie and Mortgages,” New York Times March 6, 2010 (ONLINE AT
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/business/07view.html?pagewanted=print
**Robert M. Counch, “The Great Recession’s Most Unfortunate Victim: Homeownership,” Joint
Center for Housing, 2013,
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/misc13-1_couch.pdf
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William M. Rohe and Harry L. Watson, eds., Chasing the American Dream, (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2007), Chapter 1 "Introduction: Homeownership in American Culture and
Public Policy” and Chapter 2 “The Ideological Origins of Affordable Homeownership Effects.”
(HKS LIBRARY)
Edward M. Gramlich, Subprime Mortgages: America’s Latest Boom and Bust (Washington D.C.:
The Urban Institute Press, 2006) Chapter 4, “Benefits, Costs, and Risks for the New
Homeowners,” pp. 57 to 82 (HKS LIBRARY)
III. Implementing Urban Policy – Availability of and Accessibility to Capital
September 28: The Role of Regulated Financial Institutions and the Community
Reinvestment Act (CRA)
**Braunstein, S. “The Community Reinvestment Act.” Testimony Before the Committee on
Financial Services. February 13, 2008. Retrieved from:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/braunstein20080213a.htm
**Bhutta, N. and Canner, G. “Did the CRA Cause the Mortgage Market Meltdown?” Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Community Dividend. March 1, 2009.
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm?id=4136&
September 30: FIRST MEMO DUE
Financing Affordable Housing
**Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy, “Turning a Blind Eye: Wall Street Finance of Predatory
Lending,” Fordham Law Review, Vol. LXXV, No. 4, March 2007, pp. 2039-2103 (AVAILABLE AT
http://law2.fordham.edu/publications/articles/500flspub7646.pdf
**Ingrid Gould Ellen, John Napier Tye, and Mark A. Willis, “Improving U.S. Housing Finance
Through Reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Assessing the Options,” A paper prepared for
the What Works Collaborative. May 2010 (ONLINE AT
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/1001382-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-reform.pdf
**Robert Van Order “Securitization and Community Lending: A Framework and Some Lessons
from the Experience in the U. S. Mortgage Market,” in Community Development Investment
Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Volume 2, Number 1, 2006, pp. 1-16.
(ONLINE AT http://www.frbsf.org/community-development/files/cdireviewvol2issue12006.pdf
Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy, “Predatory Lending, What Does Wall Street Have to Do
With It?” in Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 15, Issue 3, (2004) pp. 715-751. (ONLINE AT
http://www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?id=58735
“Community Investments, Special Issue on Affordable Housing.” Volume 17, Number 3.
September 2005. Pgs. 9-12. Retrieved from:
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/community/investments/0508/CIaugust2005.pdf
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October 9: Federal Tax Credit Programs – Low Income Housing Tax Credits
Novogradac and Co. YouTube Video on Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) Basics.
Retrieved from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxwpoLztx70&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Department of Housing and Urban Development, LIHTC Basics. Retrieved from:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/affordablehousing/training/web/lihtc/basics/
**Kirk McClure, "The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Goes Mainstream and Moves to
the Suburbs" Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 17, Issue 3, (2006) pp. 419-446.
http://saud.ku.edu/sites/default/files/hpd_1703_mcclure.pdf
Kirk McClure, "The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit as an Aid to Housing Finance" Housing Policy
Debate, Vol. 11, Issue 1, (2000) pp. 91-114. (ONLINE AT
http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/showdoc.html?id=3083
Kennedy School of Government Case Program, Learning the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit:
(B) Boston East, HKS Case C16-94-1250.0. (HKS LIBRARY)
Kennedy School of Government Case Program, Learning the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit:
(A) Tuscaloosa South, Case C16-94-1249.0. (HKS LIBRARY)
Kimura, D. “Looking for Balance: Syndicators React to Rising Prices, Falling Yields.” Affordable
Housing Finance. September 2011. Retrieved from:
http://www.housingfinance.com/ahf/articles/2011/september/0911-finance-Looking-forBalance.htm
Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “Innovative Ideas for
Revitalizing the LIHTC Market.” November, 2009. Pgs. 4-5 and 31-32.
Retrieved from: http://stlouisfed.org/community_development/assets/pdf/LIHTC.pdf
October 5: Alternatives to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
**Mark L. Joseph, “Is Mixed-Income Development an Antidote to Urban Poverty?” Housing Policy
Debate, Volume 17, Issue 2, (2006) pp. 81-108. (ONLINE AT
http://www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?id=205411
**Jill Khadduri and Charles Wilkins, “Designing Subsidized Rental Housing Programs: What Have
We Learned?” a paper prepared for Revisiting Rental Housing: A National Policy Summit, AT
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/rr07-5_khadduri.pdf
Lan Deng, “Comparing the Effects of Housing Vouchers and the Low-Income Tax Credits on
Neighborhood Integration and School Quality,” Journal of Planning Education and Research,
Volume 27, Issue 1 (2007) available at http://jpe.sagepub.com/content/27/1/20.abstract
Julia Lane, Ned English, Fredrik Andersson, and Patrick Park, “Workforce Development and Rental
Policy: How Can What We Know Inform Next Steps?” a paper prepared for Revisiting Rental
Housing: A National Policy Summit, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University,
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Cambridge Mass., November 2006. (ONLINE AT
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/publications/workforce-development-and-rental-policyhow-can-what-we-know-inform-next-steps
October 7: Accessing Capital for Small Business Credit
“Small Business Administration 504 Loan Program: Small Businesses’ Window to Wall Street.”
May 2010. OCC Community Affairs Publication. Retrieved from:
http://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/community-affairs/publications/insights/insights-smallbusiness-admin-504-loans.pdf
SBA 504 Loan Refinancing Program. Retrieved from: http://www.sba.gov/content/504-loanrefinancing-program
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. “New Alternatives in Small Business Financing.” Retrieved
from:
http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/community_development/marketwise_community/20
11/pdf/vol02_issue01.pdf
Federal Reserve Board of Governors. “Addressing the Financing Needs of Small Businesses.” July
2010. Retrieved from:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/conferences/sbc_small_business_summary.pdf
Duke, E. “Small Business Credit Availability.” 2011 International Factoring Association
Conference, Washington, D.C. April 14, 2011. Retrieved from:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/duke20110414a.htm
October 12: COLUMBUS DAY – NO CLASS
October 14: Community Development Financial Institutions
**Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Community Development Department. “Community
Development Financial Institutions: A Unique Partnership for Banks.” Special Issue, 2011.
Retrieved from:
http://www.richmondfed.org/community_development/resource_centers/cdfi/pdf/cdfispecial-2011.pdf
Retsinas, N., Segel, A, and Creo, B. “The Big Easy, Not So Easy.” Case Study from Harvard Business
School, Harvard University. Case 9-208-068. February 13, 2008, Revised March 3, 2009.
Available for purchase from the Harvard Business School website at the following link:
http://hbr.org/product/the-big-easy-not-so-easy/an/208068-PDF-ENG?Ntt=big%2520easy
IV. Community and Economic Development
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October 19: Dealing with Gentrification and Diversity
** Daniel Hartley, “Gentrification and Financial Health, ”Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland,
http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/trends/2013/1113/01regeco.cfm
**Robert D. Putnam’s “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century,
The 2006 John Skytte Prize Lecture, Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 2 (2006), pp.
137-74. (ONLINE AT http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007.00176.x/full
**Xavier de Souza Briggs, “’Some of My Best Friends Are ..:’ Interracial Friendships, Class, and
Segregation in America” in City & Community, Vol. 6, Issue 4 Dec, 2007 pp. 263 – 290.
http://web.mit.edu/dusp/dusp_extension_unsec/people/faculty/briggs/briggs-2007interracial.pdf
David Goodhart, “Too Diverse?” Prospect Magazine, February, 2004, pp 30 – 37 and “Too Diverse?
Replies to David Goodhart’s Essay,” Prospect Magazine, March 2004 [2006], pp 1 – 10 (ONLINE AT
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/too-diverse-david-goodhart-multiculturalismbritain-immigration-globalisation/#.U3zW0l6KkQQ
And www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2006/06/repliestodavidgoodhart/
October 21: The Role of Community-Based Development Organizations
** Alexander Von Hoffman, “The Past, Present and Future of Community Development in the United
States,” page 10-54, http://whatworksforamerica.org/pdf/whatworks_fullbook.pdf
**Rachel G. Bratt “Should We Foster the Non Profit Sector as Developers and Owners of
Subsidized Rental Housing?” a paper prepared for Revisiting Rental Housing: A National Policy
Summit, (ONLINE AT http://jchs.unix.fas.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/rr0712_bratt.pdf
**Gregory Ratliff and Kirsten Moy, “New Pathways to Scale for Community Development Finance,”
Profitwise News and Views, (Dec., 2004), pp. 2-23. ONLINE AT
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/upload/12_2004_pnv_new_pathways_
to_scale.pdf
Alan Berube, “The Continuing Evolution of American Poverty and its Implication for Community
Development,” page 55-71, http://whatworksforamerica.org/pdf/whatworks_fullbook.pdf
October 28: Post Acorn: Community Organizing
**Marshall Ganz, “What is Organizing?” Social Policy, Fall 2002, Volume 33, Number 1, pp. 1617. (ONLINE AT http://rippelfoundation.org/rpf-dev/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/What-IsOrganizing-1.pdf
**Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr., "Reweaving the Fabric: The Iron Rule and the IAF Strategy for Dealing
with Poverty Through Power and Politics," Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, Henry
G. Cisneros, ed., pp. 295-319 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company:1993) (ONLINE AT
http://www.cpn.org/topics/community/reweaving.html)
**Mark R. Warren, Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize America Democracy,
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(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press), Chapter 1, “Community Building and Political
Renewal,” pp 15-39) or ONLINE: http://bnp.binghamton.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2011/08/Warren-2001-Dry-Bones-Rattling-Chapter-1-and-2.pdf
Mark R. Warren, Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize America Democracy,
Chapter 2, “A Theology of Organizing: From Alinsky to the Modern IAF” pp 40-71 ONLINE:
http://bnp.binghamton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Warren-2001-Dry-Bones-RattlingChapter-1-and-2.pdf
Theda Skocpol, “Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy,”
Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp 3-18. (ONLINE AT
https://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/skocpol.pdf
Gregory Squires, “Introduction: The Rough Road to Reinvestment”, in Gregory D. Squires, ed.,
Organizing Access to Capital: Advocacy and the Democratization of Financial Institutions,
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003) pp. 1 to 27. (HKS LIBRARY)
November 2: Building on Assets
**John Kretzmann and John McKnight, "Asset-Based Community Development," National Civic
Review, Volume 85, No. 4 (Winter, 1996) pp. 23-29.
**Kathryn Edin, “More than Money: The Role of Assets in the Survival Strategies and Material
Well-Being of the Poor,” Chapter 6 in Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolf, Assets for the
Poor: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001, pp.
232-268
Nancy A. Denton, “Housing as a Means of Asset Accumulation: A Good Strategy for the Poor?”
Chapter 7 in Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolf, Assets for the Poor: The Benefits of
Spreading Asset Ownership, pp. 232-268. (HKS LIBRARY)
Colleen Dailey and Ray Boshara, “Achieving Economic Self-Sufficiency through Asset Building,” in
Richard Kazis and Marc S. Miller, eds., Low Wage Workers in the New Economy (Washington, DC:
Urban Institute Press 2001) pp 151-164. (HKS LIBRARY)
November 4: Workforce Development Partnerships
**Robert P. Giloth, Workforce Intermediaries: Partnerships for the Future, Economic
Development Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3, (August, 2003), pp. 215-219. (ONLINE AT
http://edq.sagepub.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/17/3/215.full.pdf+html
** Adair Crosley and Brandon Roberts “Strengthening State Policies to Increase Education and
Skills of Low-Wage Workers” a report prepared for the Working Poor Families Project
http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/pdfs/WPFP_policy_brief_spring07_pdf.pdf
Robert P. Giloth, Learning from the Field: Economic Growth and Workforce Development,
Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4, (August 2000), pp. 340-357. (ONLINE AT
http://auburn.edu/outreach/ecdi/documents/ewfd_learning_from_field.pdf
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VERSION 1 AUGUST 25, 2015 SUBJECT TO INSTRUCTOR’S REVISIONS
November 9: ***SECOND MEMO IS DUE***
Healthy Communities and Healthy Foods – Guest Speaker, Noemi Sportiche, Metropolitan
Area Planning Council
**Policy Link, The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Foods and Why it Matters
http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/FINALGroceryGap.pdf
**Denver’s Mariposa District: Supporting Healthy, Mixed-Income Living
http://www.huduser.org/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_inpractice_022414.html
November 11 Veteran’s Day - No Class
November 16: City Government and Economic Development
**Springfield Massachusetts, Strategies for a Sustainable City,
http://www3.springfieldma.gov/cos/fileadmin/reports/SpringfieldMA06v6_lores.pdf
V. New Issues and Approaches in Urban Policy Setting
November 18: Private Sector Economic Development
** Kent Portney, Local Sustainability Policies and Programs As Economic Development: Is the New
Economic Development Sustainable Development?
http://www.huduser.org/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol15num1/Cityscape_March2013_local_sus
.pdf
**Michael E. Porter, “New Strategies for Inner-City Economic Development,” Economic
Development Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1, (February 1997), pp. 11-27 Can access through Sagepub
with login info
**Julia Sass Rubin, “Developmental Venture Capital: Conceptualizing the Field,” in Venture
Capital Volume 4, No, 4 (2009) pp. 335—360
**Robert Weissbourd and Ricardo Bodini, “Market-Based Community Economic Development”
The Brookings Institution, March 2005. DOWNLOAD ONLINE AT:
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2005/03/communitydevelopment-weissbourd02
November 23: Enhancing and Developing Human Capital
Promise Zones
**http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/economicdevelop
ment/programs/pz
https://www2.ed.gov/programs/promiseneighborhoods/index.html?exp=0
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VERSION 1 AUGUST 25, 2015 SUBJECT TO INSTRUCTOR’S REVISIONS
**Bernardine Watson, “Are the Obama administration’s ‘Promise Zones’ a promising anti-poverty
strategy?”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/10/11/are-the-obamaadministrations-promise-zones-a-promising-anti-poverty-strategy/
Harlem’s Children Zones, http://www.omprakash.org/images/gallery/full_size/hcz_0.pdf
My Brother’s Keeper
**Michael Shear, Obama Starts Initiative for Young Black Men, Noting His Own Experience
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/us/politics/obama-will-announce-initiative-to-empoweryoung-black-men.html?hpw&rref=politics&_r=0
Lisa Gennetian, The Long-Term Effects of Moving to Opportunity on Youth Outcomes,
http://www.huduser.org/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol14num2/ch5.html
November 25: Thanksgiving Break – NO CLASS
November 30: Presentations of Final Paper – Final Paper will be the analysis of a chosen urban
policy and its implementation and ramifications in a large urban, metropolitan area. Select students
will make 10 to 12 minute in-class presentations.
December 2: Wrap – up Class. Review of key Issues and a Look into the Future –
Regional Approaches.
Sustainable Regional Planning
**Partnership for Sustainable Communities White House Blog Posting. June 29, 2012. Retrieved
from:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/06/29/partnership-sustainable-communities-marksthree-years-helping-communities-build-foun
**Partnership for Sustainable Communities Web Site. Retrieved from:
http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/
Review of Greater Boston Sustainable Communities Regional Plan, www.mapc.org
Review of South Florida Regional Plan, Seven50, www.seven50.org
Course Evaluation – 10 minutes
FINAL PAPER DUE – DECEMBER 11, 2015
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