Housing | Planetizen Courses

As one of the most urgent issues facing planners today, housing policy is a crucial tool for impacting quality of life, affordability, and livability in cities, suburbs, and rural communities. Planetizen Courses provides a wealth of information about everything from historic housing policies and their continued impacts on urban design to fiscal impact analysis and sustainable development. You’ll hear from leading experts on hot-button topics such as zoning reform, density, transit-oriented development, and other issues that inform the housing debate today.

Housing Courses

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Understanding Fiscal Impact Analyses

46 Mins

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How Zoning Shapes Cities, Communities, and Regions

84 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

Exterior of Pruitt Igoe housing complex

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

84 Mins

AICP CM

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Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

79 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Greening the Neighborhood: LEED-ND Core Concepts

29 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Race, Space, and Planning

66 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

colorful townhomes

Missing Middle Housing: Meeting the Growing Demand for Walkable Urbanism

72 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A

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Prospects for Zoning Reform

96 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

City Dreamers film ad

81 Mins

Construction inside a large two-story mall.

Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold

48 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Greening the Neighborhood: LEED-ND Metrics

65 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Accessory Dwelling Units: Understanding America’s Newest Housing Typology

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Understanding the Great Recession

74 Mins

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A New Era of Downtown Opportunity: The Intersection of Housing and Innovation

65 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Lewis Mumford on the City 5: The City as Man's Home

31 Mins

AICP CM

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Walkable City 2: The Useful Walk

82 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

leed buildings with green space in foreground

Greening the Neighborhood: LEED-ND Globally and v.4 Update

51 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Women and Cities 3: Gender Equity in Private Life

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

54 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Exploring the Regulation of Short-Term Rentals

67 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A

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Suburban Remix: Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places

63 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Designing the Megaregion

Jonathan Barnett

65 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Time Value of Money for Planners

80 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A

Boston buildings and bridge

The Elements of Citymaking: Design, Policy, and Finance

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Regulatory Implications of Tiny Homes

58 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A

Top Housing Instructors

David Dixon

David is well known for helping create new, mixed-use urban districts (in both cities and suburbs)...

Menka Sethi

Menka Sethi is an accomplished consultant and professor in the field of real estate development and...

Eliot Allen

Eliot Allen, certified, LEED AP-ND, is an urban planner and Principal with Criterion Planners of Portland...

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

Katrina is a lecturer, researcher, and advocate for heart-centered cities. Her work focuses on human behavior...

Jeff Speck

Jeff Speck is a city planner who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.

Jennifer Raitt

Jennifer Raitt is the Executive Director of the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments. She has nearly...

Jenny Schuetz

Jenny is a Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro and an expert in housing policy.

Christy Dodson

Christy is an Urban Designer at Code Studio, with a background in architecture and planning.

Jason Neville

Jason is an experienced urban planner, redevelopment professional, and affordable housing developer.

Lance Freeman

Lance Freeman is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University in New York...

Meredith Johnson

Meredith is the owner of Johnson Planning and Preservation LLC, a boutique firm that works to...

Jason Luger

Jason Luger is a lecturer in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, College of Environmental...

Malak Hakim

Malak Hakim is a nationally accredited urban planner.

Tim Halbur

Tim Halbur is communications director for the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), the leading organization...

Garlynn Woodsong

Garlynn Woodsong is a geographer and urban planner with more than 13 years of experience in...

Elizabeth Doerr

Elizabeth Doerr is a writer with expertise and awareness around social and racial justice issues and...

Lynn Peterson

Lynn Peterson is a nationally recognized transportation and land use integration expert.

Nolan Gray

M. Nolan Fray is the Research Director for California YIMBY, an expert in urban land-use regulation...

Kristin Faurest

Kristin Faurest is a public garden education and outreach professional, author, and landscape architecture educator, committed...

John Hersey

John is a planner with two decades of experience critically evaluating and advancing transit-oriented development as...

Michael Manville

Michael Manville is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Álvaro Huerta

Dr. Álvaro Huerta is a Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and...

Dave Amos

Dave is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cal Poly...

Chris Holtkamp

Chris Holtkamp is a certified planner and is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning at the...

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US Disability Access Laws for Planners

Instructor: Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

Explore the key disability rights laws that shape planners' work — including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Architectural Barriers Act, the Fair Housing Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 — to understand their core provisions.

4.33

109 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

Generative AI, Ethics, and the Future of Urban Planning

Instructor: Tom Sanchez

Explore the ethical and equity implications of using generative AI in urban planning. This course addresses bias, transparency, public trust, emerging tools like digital twins, and offers practical guidance for responsible adoption.

4.30

66 Mins

CIP

AIA CES

AICP CM

Equitable Transit Oriented Development

Instructor: John Hersey

Equitable transit oriented development (eTOD) prioritizes inclusive community development in multi-modal regional growth.

4.38

57 Mins

CIP

AIA CES

AICP CM

SACPLAN CPD