8. Housing
Chapter Learning Objectives
- Define houselessness and housing insecurity.
- Explain some institutional barriers to home ownership and whom those barriers are most likely to affect.
- Define redlining and bluelining.
- Discuss the purpose of the Fair Housing Act and evaluate its success to date.
- Relate economics and power to home ownership.
- Analyze how where someone lives relates to other aspects of family life, such as health.
- Recommend some solutions to the housing challenges that families face in the US.
- Analyze chapter concepts related to housing to one’s own observations and experiences.
- Describe the multi-directional relationship between social processes and institutions and access to housing.
- Analyze housing from an equity perspective.
