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URBS/PLSI 580 "Housing & Community Dev.Policy"
Fall, l998 Richard LeGates
Office HSS 137 Office Hrs. TTH 1:30 - 2 & by appt.
Phone: 338-2391 e-mail dlegates@sfsu.edu

Terms for Midterm

 

September 1 Film: Holding Ground

Comprehensive community based initiative

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

Eminent Domain

Urban Renewal

February 3 Computer Lab Session

Browser

Dream Home Loan Site

Homepage

Netscape

PSIRUS Laboratory

URL

World Wide Web (www)


February 8 "What is Housing and Community Development Policy"

Community Development

Economic Development

Housing Management

Housing Production

Housing Regulation

Housing Subsidy

Job Training Program

Private Market

Nonprofit Sector

Policy

Private Sector

Public Sector

Social Services

"The State" (in political science terminology; not "the state" of California

February 10 "Understanding Housing Conditions"

Above moderate income household

Addition to Housing Stock

Changes in the housing inventory

Consolidated plan

Constant quality house

Conversion

Demolition

Household

Housing start

Low Income Household

Median Priced house

Median rent

Moderate Income household

Overcrowded unit

Severely overcrowded unit

Vacancy rate

Very low income household

February 15 "Building Housing"

Building code

Cyclic industry

Factory-built housing

Fox and Jacobs house

Fragmented industry

General contractor

Housing code

Levittown

Modular housing

Mobile home

Operation breakthrough

Sears Roebuck pre-fabricated houses

Subcontractor

Title 24 (California Energy requirements)

February 17 Homebuying and Housing Finance

Adjustable rate mortgage (ARM

ARM caps (periodic & lifetime)

Amortization table

Annual percentage rate (APR) of mortgage interest

Assumable loan

Closing costs

Down payment

Escrow

Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

Fixed rate mortgage

Fsbo (pronounced FIZZ-BO)

Hazard Insurance

Interest rate

Mortgage broker

Mortgage credit certificate (MCC)

Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

PITI payment

Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)

Qualifying ratio

Rollover residence replacement rule

Savings and Loan (S+L)

Secondary mortgage market

Title Insurance

Veterans Administration (VA) loan

 

29 "Landlord-Tenant Relations"

Eviction

Eviction defense mill

Implied warranty of habitability

Just cause for eviction

Lease

Month to month tenancy

Notice to quit

Repair-and-deduct statute

Rent strike

Retaliatory eviction defense

Security deposit

Tenant's Union

Three day notice

Urban Landlord Tenant Relations Law (ULTRA)

Oct 1 "Rent Stabilization"

Annual general adjustment

Base rent

Capital improvement adjustment

Rent board

Rent control

Rent rollback

Rent stabilization

Vacancy control

Vacancy decontrol