Module: Housing Policy

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Housing Policy
Module Code	LG5069 (ITS) / POL1072 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	Law & Government
Module Co-ordinator	Valesca Lima
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	10
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

This course provides an introduction to topics in Housing Policy in Ireland and internationally. While focused on Irish housing policy and its evolution and developments, this module also focuses substantive knowledge, theory and policy trends on housing issues worldwide, such as housing crisis, financialisation, affordability, housing rights and policy strategies at the local, national and international level. In this way, drawing from a diversity of policy examples, this module critically explores how housing production has changed overtime to reflect contemporary urban challenges, debates, dilemmas and conflicts in housing systems and policy processes. More importantly, it is expected that students in this course will at the end acquire skills and capabilities to identify key housing developments, develop critical policy skills and learn to assess potential policy solutions to housing problems.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and apply knowledge the key elements of housing policy development
2. Analyze the factors that shape the current state of housing policy and housing provision environment
3. Assess, anticipate and identify, the possible positive and negative implications of housing approaches
4. Explore the role of different actors (e.g. politicians, national and international organisations, civil society, social movements) in the housing policy process

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	12	Weekly classes over 12 weeks.
Seminars	12	Weekly discussion seminars, over 11 weeks, led by lecturer. Largely facilitated group - discussion and analysis.
Assignment Completion	22	Independent reading and completion of weekly assignment.
Assignment Completion	24	Undertaken on an individual basis, requiring independent reading, and completion of written work.
Directed learning	180	Preparatory reading
Total Workload: 250

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	E-Portfolio, Book review	90%	n/a
Participation	n/a	10%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

David Clapham: 2018, Remaking Housing Policy, Routledge, NY, 9781138193956
Brian Lund: 2017, Understanding Housing Policy, 1st, Policy Press, London, 978144733044

Other Resources

49159, Report, Irish Human Rights and Equality Comission, 2021, Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland, Dublin, https://www.ihrec.ie/documents/monitoring-adequate-housing-in-ireland/, 49160, Report, Housing Europe, 2021, The state of Housing in Europe in 2021 - Next Generation neighborhoods must factor in climate without pricing out people, Brussels, https://www.housingeurope.eu/resource-1540/the-state-of-housing-in-europe-in-2021,