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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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

exterior photo of home for urban planning course

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

busy street with pedestrians, cars, and streetlights in New York

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

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Just Suburbs: The New Frontier for Equity and Inclusion

56 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

historic buildings in Charleston South Carolina

Introduction to Historic Preservation

Meredith Johnson

38 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Property Cash Flow Analysis for Planners

72 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A

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Women and Cities 4: Gender Equity in the Public Sphere

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

55 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Urban Design for Planners 5: Density

64 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

Sprawling residential neighborhoods with many single family houses.

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix it

67 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

two-story craftsman style home with a green lawn

American Architectural Styles

Meredith Johnson

71 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Property Valuation for Planners

54 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A

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Women and Cities 5: The Feminist Future City

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

A B-29 over Osaka, Japan on 1 June 1945

History of City Planning 3: Midcentury Modern (1940-1979)

64 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

Findlay market on a colorful street in Ohio.

Landscape Design for Social Sustainability, Part 1

Kristin Faurest

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Regional Scenario Planning: An Overview

Garlynn Woodsong

47 Mins

SACPLAN CPD

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U.S. City Planning 101

46 Mins

building under construction

Real Estate Debt for Planners

73 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A

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Controlling Rents

Michael Manville

76 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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The YIMBY Movement: Opportunities and Challenges for Planners

Mark Vallianatos

66 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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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Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools

Instructor: Emily Talen

Urban planners and urban designers are interested in building places that embody beauty and hope. In this course, Emily Talen, PhD, FAICP, presents free urban design software tools that can help urban planners and urban designers visualize changes in the built environment to support the overarching goal of creating better places.

4.28

59 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

CNU-A

SACPLAN CPD

The DIY Form-Based Code: Research and Development

Instructor: Norman Wright

Covering concepts critical to developing the foundation for a code, this course takes a a tour through the creation of a code for the hypothetical city of Wrightville.

4.35

66 Mins