About This Course
Zoning laws shape communities in powerful ways, influencing housing availability, affordability, and equity. This course explores how land use regulations impact fair housing, segregation, and economic disparities, with a focus on Connecticut.
You'll gain insight into modern zoning practices, their benefits and restrictions, and how they contribute to ongoing real estate challenges. Through key historical events, fair housing laws, and market trends, you’ll understand the broader implications of land use policies.
By the end, you’ll be equipped to assess zoning’s role in shaping housing opportunities and the need for reform to create more inclusive, affordable communities.
Course Facts
What You Get
Certificate of Completion
Duration
3 Hours
Learning Type
100% online, available 24/7
Course Access
Courses Available 24/7
Course Structure
At your own pace, save progress as you go
Course Updates
Content is updated and current
Topics Covered
- Lesson 1: Understanding the Land Use and Restrictions on Landowner Freedoms
- Lesson 2: The History of Zoning and Fair Housing Law
- Lesson 3: Zoning Reform
What You’ll Learn
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the key factors in land use planning and regulating, including the stated purposes of zoning laws, the history of these legal mechanisms, and their scope of influence upon individuals, families, communities, and societal life.
- Understand the highly specific residential, industrial, and commercial uses that comprise zoning districts that segment land according to sub-categorical uses.
- Examine the history of land use regulation including how zoning laws contribute to the very social issues fair housing laws aim to address, including segregation, housing discrimination and the affordability crisis that perpetuates disparate outcomes according to socio-economic status.
- Define housing in terms of its empirical relationship to human well-being, identifying the interrelated social determinants of health, as well as the role of housing, neighborhood context, affordability, and zoning on human outcomes.
- Examine opportunities and case studies of zoning reform to promote equity in zoning and land use practices.
Regulatory Information
| Name: | Department of Consumer Protection Connecticut - Real Estate Commission |
| Phone: | 860-713-6150 |
| Fax: | 860-713-7230 |
| Website URL: | https://www.ct.gov/dcp/site/default.asp |
| Email Address: | license.services@ct.gov |
| Address: | 165 Capitol Avenue, Room 110 |
| City: | Hartford |
| State: | CT |
| Zip: | 06106-1630 |
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