Community Development Finance

Catalog description

This course will examine current practices and new opportunities in sustainable community development that foster long-term benefits to surrounding neighborhoods. A specific focus of this study is to utilize market-based strategies to generate greater overall public benefit, and to identify key metrics to define and measure success. Students in this course will explore ways to evaluate local policies and requirements to effectively and efficiently meet local objectives. Students will study what types of development successfully promote and facilitate population and economic growth in certain cities and analyze why some urban areas continue to experience decline.