Spring 2027

Affordable Housing

Foundational course on affordable housing development, focusing on LIHTC, financial tools, political context, and strategies to overcome local resistance.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Paul Aylesworth

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.77 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the role of affordable housing development in the United States including its impact on vulnerable communities, its challenges, and common criticisms.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) transactions through financial models, professional memos, and development project plans.

  • Utilize knowledge of affordable development goals, project fundamentals, and community context to build cases in support of projects and present results in written and presentation format, adjusted for the specific audience.

  • Evaluate and interpret academic papers, trade publications, and mainstream news sources on and engage in classroom discussions.

  • Demonstrate aptitude in customizing affordable housing financial models to assume specific funding underwriting rules and scoring criteria.

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Prerequisites

Course map

Satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A,GEN BUS 106, or graduate/professional standing

    • Satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A
    • GENBUS 106
    • graduate/professional standing
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REALEST 560

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  • Any of
    • Satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A
    • GENBUS 106
    • graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.77 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

PAUL AYLESWORTH is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 600

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.77 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
  • Political and bureaucratic context of housing development
  • Challenges in affordable housing, including local resistance

Skills

  • Technical and analytical skills to use financial tools for affordable housing
  • Customizing financial models for funding underwriting and scoring
  • Building cases and presenting results in written and oral formats

Grades

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REALEST 560 · Spring 2027

Affordable Housing

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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