This course will ponder the relation of crime to housing affordability and wage stagnation. Karl Marx described how in nineteenth century England large scale farming huddled laborers into miserable dwellings where dear rents and minimal wages fostered crime. Dubbed “improvements”, these evictions also furnished lavish new places of business and residence for the wealthy. This course will consider actual and historical examples of “improvements” and crime, and their "intersectional" outcomes.
PAGS 307: Housing, Affordability, Wages and Crime
Program
Attributes
Diversity Domestic,
Writing Intensive,
Upper-Level,
Social Sciences,
Cross-listed