GGR 357   Summer 2008

Geography of Housing and Housing Policy


Results.  These results have already been bell curved.

All assignments may be picked up at the geography office in Sid Smith Hall. Attached to them are elaborate comment sheets that should give you insight into the marking process.

Due date assignment: June 20, 2008, 5 pm, 5th floor SSH, drop box Geography office and e-mail.
Final exam: Monday, June 23, 2008. 5-7pm: Wilson Hall: 1016

If you have questions, please consult course materials posted on this website and the text book. If you still have questions after that, please contact me.

Here you can find the power point slides of the lectures for this course.  If you need the power point viewer, you can download it free of cost from Microsoft.

Session 6 - 04-06-08: Neighbourhood change
Session 7 - 09-06-08: Housing allocation
Session 8 - 11-06-08: Housing affordability
Final Session - 18-06-08: Meaning of home(ownership) & housing policy

Session 1 - 12-05-08: Introduction and Households and Housing
Session 2 - 14-05-08: Tenure choice and socio-economic inequalities
Session 3 - 21-05-08: Intergenerational transmission of homeownership
Session 4 - 26-05-08: Unequal opportunities and social exclusion
Session 5 - 28-05-08: Segregation on the housing market

Underneath are all required additional readings. Consult the syllabus to see if you have all the required readings. Readings that are not posted here are available on the fifth floor of Sidney Smith Hall. If you need the Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF-files, you can download it free of cost from Adobe.

Session 1: Dieleman, 2001    Bourne, 1981    Clark & Dieleman, 1996
                CMHC, 2007

Session 2: Oswald, 1999        Coulson & Fisher, 2002
                Helderman, 2007

Session 3: Henretta, 1984      Jenkins & Maynard, 1983    Helderman & Mulder, 2007

Session 4: Readings from Hulchanksi & Shapcott only

Session 5: Balakrishnan & Gyimah, 2003     Bauder & Sharpe, 2002    Bourne, 1981
                CMHC, 2006

Session 6: Hackworth & Rekers, 2005    Smith, 1987    Slater, 2005

Session 7: Bourne, 1981

Session 8: CMHC, 2007 (only chapter on Housing Affordability is required reading!)

Session 9: Sinai, 2001    Soldressen, 1998    Doling & Ford, 1996    Saunders, 1990

Session 10: Bourne, 1981    Bourne, 1981



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