Program Overview

Program Overview

The program focuses on the study of America, with various fields of study and research areas.

Fields of Study

• Undergraduate
  • Enroll
  • AMS 101 / ASA 101 / LAO 101
  • Prizes
  • Past Theses
• American Studies
  • Minor Requirements
  • Enroll in AMS
  • Undergraduate Courses
• Asian American Studies
  • Minor Requirements
  • Enroll in ASA
  • Undergraduate Courses
• Latino Studies
  • Minor Requirements
  • Enroll in LAO
  • Undergraduate Courses
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
  • Princeton American Indian and Indigenous Studies Working Group (PAIISWG)
  • Sawyer Seminars
  • Unami Language and History Symposium

Research

• Blue Lab
• The Center on Transnational Policing (CTP)
  • CTP Initiatives
  • People
  • CTP News and Events
    • CTP Events Archive

Course Details

Affordable Housing in the United States (HA)

• Subject associations: URB 384 / AMS 386 / HIS 340 / ARC 387
• Term: Spring 2026
• Instructors: Aaron P. Shkuda
• Registrar description: This course introduces students to the ways that policy, design, and citizen activism shaped affordable housing in the United States from the early 20th century to the present. We explore privately-developed tenements and row houses, government-built housing, publicly-subsidized suburban homes and cooperatives, as well as housing developed through incentives and subsidies. Students will analyze the balance between public and private, free market and subsidy, and preservation and renewal. Close attention will be paid to the role of race in structuring the relationship between policymakers, property owners, renters, and homeowners.