**OPTIONAL: Make-up/Bonus Content Response  (10pts)**

DUE 12/2 – NOT ACCEPTING LATE SUBMISSIONS

This content response is optional. If you choose to do it, and do it well, you can earn up to 10 points—this includes 5 additional bonus points on your overall final content response grade.

This make-up/bonus content response can be applied in a few ways:

• Replacing the lowest of the 7 content response grades.
• Adding to your content response count if you are short of the 7 required.
• If you have done 7 responses and got the max 5 points on all of them, then I would simply swap this one out (it becomes beneficial then if you earn more than 5 points on it)

If you choose to do this assignment, I will apply the points you earn in the way most advantageous to your grade. If the work is done poorly or is plagiarized (i.e., you earn too few or zero points) I will not use the assignment to make your grade lower than it otherwise would have been.  

Here is the assignment:

Please write a 500-word reflection on the Afterword (The Rental Housing Boom: New Frontiers of Housing Financialisation) in Raquel Rolnik’s book Urban Warfare. You must reference specifics from the text to support your thoughts and reflections. If your writing reads as a general summary, lacks specifics, or sounds like an AI-generated book review – it will reflect in a low grade.

A PDF of the entire book Urban Warfare is posted to our Brightspace library.

This is due on December 2, I will not be accepting late submissions.

CR #10 DUE 11/19

Undergraduates & Graduates: Please write a 300-500 word reflection on Starecheski’’s article on squatting – please be sure to reference specifics from the article.

Please upload a word.doc or PDF of your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 11/19

CR #9 DUE 11/12

Since there are no assigned readings for this week, please take this content response as an opportunity to write a brief summary of the issue on which you are planning to (or think you might plan to) write about for your final paper. Be sure to list one or two references that you are using/may be using for your paper.

Please upload a word.doc or PDF of your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 11/12.

CR #8 DUE 11/5

Undergraduates: Based onAalber’ article, please describe what makes 5^th wave gentrification different from prior waves.

Graduates: Based on Brown-Saracino’s article, would you favor a qualitative or quantitative (or both?) approach to the study of gentrification? Please explain why using the article to support your thinking.

Please upload a word.doc or PDF of your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 11/5.

CR#7 DUE 10/29

Undergraduates & Graduates: Please write a 300-500 word summary of Chapter 1 of Zoned Out!

Please upload a word.doc or PDF of your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 10/29

CR #6 DUE 10/15

CR #6 DUE 10/15 by 11:59p

Undergraduates & Graduates: Since there isn’t any assigned content and you are preparing for your midterm exam—take this content response as an opportunity write a 300-500 word reflection on one or more of the topics we’ve been studying. Be sure to refer to specific and examples/policies etc.

CR #5 DUE 10/8

Undergraduates: Referring to the Rotramel (2021) article, in 300-500 words, describe how public housing became stigmatized in the mid-20^th century and what impact this has on single-mothers.

Graduates: Drawing on Sink & Ceh (2011) in 300-500 words, what has been the impact of Hope VI and public housing demolition on patterns of racial segregation?

Please upload a word.doc or PDF of your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 10/8.

CR #4 DUE 9/24

Undergraduates: In 300-500 words, identify and describe two key takeaways from Holtzman’s article: “I Am Not Co-op!”: The Struggle over Middle-Class Housing in 1970s New York.

Graduates: In 300-500 words, summarize what you learned from Kirchheimer’s Sheltering the Homeless in NYC and include any connections you find with Holtzman’s article.  

Please upload your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 9/24.

CR #3 DUE 9/17

Undergraduates: Taylor gave this chapter the paradoxical title, “The Urban Crisis Is Over—Long Live the Urban Crisis!” – from your reading of this chapter, explain (in 300-500 words) why you think she titled it this way. Please be sure to cite specifics from the reading to support your reasoning.

Graduates: In 300-500 words, please write a brief (high-level) summary of Bonastia’s article.  

Please upload your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 9/17.

CR #2 DUE 9/10

Undergraduates & Graduates: Please write a 300-500 word summary of Botein’s article, with an emphasis on the experiences had by the homeowners and community.

Please upload your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 9/10.

CR#1 DUE 9/3

• Undergraduates: Write a 300-500 word reflection on what you learned from Ch. 1 of In Defense of Housing.
• Graduate Students: Write a 300-500 word reflection on what you learned from Fields’ article “Unwilling Subjects of Financialization.”

Please upload your response to Brightspace by 11:59p, Tuesday 9/3.

Rubric

Points	Criteria
5	Writing clearly met the requirements, is well written and thoughtfully engages with the material.
3-4	Writing clearly met the requirements, is somewhat well written and to some degree engages with the material.
2-3	Writing doesn’t meet the requirements and/or is poorly written.
0-1	Did not do assignment or writing was insufficient.