ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the activities of housing educators and planners with the goal of understanding what planners need to know about housing policy and housing markets. Housing is currently unevenly treated among planning bodies: planning for housing is part of planning education and the planning profession in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, France, and some Eastern European countries, but not in Germany, the United Kingdom, and some of continental Europe. Therefore it is worth examining housing as a planning subject, with a particular focus on the needs of disadvantaged groups. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the value of a cross-cultural approach to housing discussions.
