CRP370 PRINCIPLES OF HOUSING
| Course Code: | 1210370 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | City and Regional Planning |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. ÖZGÜL BURCU ÖZDEMİR SARI |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Throughout this course, students learn specific features of the housing sector, and acquire basic concepts of housing need and demand, housing supply, housing finance and state housing policies. Institutional developments and organizations that have been created by the industrial revolution in housing finance and housing policies are introduced. Students are expected to get an understanding at the end of the semester on country-specific characteristics and cross-country variation in housing issues.
Course Content
Definition of housing as a specific commodity; the concepts of housing need and housing demand; forms of housing provision, characteristics of house building industry; housing finance systems; state housing policies: subsidizing housing, rent control, social rented housing; regeneration unauthorized housing.
Course Learning Outcomes
Students are expected to be able to estimate housing need for an urban area, estimate housing demand elasticities, calculate how housing consumption of an household would vary in an urban area, how house builder use different input combinations with the spatial variation of input prices at different locations in urban space.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Knowledge and internalization of the concepts of social responsibility and public interest | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Giving priority to these concepts in planning and practice | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Commitment to professional ethics and values | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Capacity to independently carry out individual tasks and studies | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Ability to work as a responsible team member as well as a leader in team works | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Professional competency to carry out plans and projects with the utmost quality | ✔ | |||
| 7 | In the fields of planning and design: * Knowledge of planning theories * Ability to integrate theory and practice * Competency in problem definition, critical approach, and usage of analysis methods and techniques * Skills of inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional thinking, analysis, synthesis, implementation, and development of alternative plans and design solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | In both Turkish and English: * Knowledge of professional terminology * Ability to carry out and present original studies * Skills of expressing oneself | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Lifelong learning skills and attributes | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Competency in process design and management | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution