Housing Studies

Are you interested in housing issues that affect our communities such as homelessness or affordable housing?  Are you interested in the business aspects of how people finance their homes?  Are you interested in how houses are constructed and how zoning regulations affect neighborhood planning?  Are you curious about energy use in houses?  Or environmental aspects of air quality?

A Housing Studies major prepares you for a career in assisting people in their housing needs.  Career paths include overseeing the operation of apartment buildings, housing complexes or commercial buildings; assessing, compiling and analyzing data related to property value; helping people obtain financing for their home or business; and determining solutions to housing problems, such as access issues for the disabled, affordable low-income housing, or availability of housing for special populations.

Housing Studies graduates typically work as housing coordinators, housing advocates, neighborhood planners, mortgage bankers and loan officers, appraisers, property managers, and housing researchers.

Housing Studies Resource List/Professional Associations
Click on the above Housing Studies Resource List to get a list of resources specifically for this major including helpful job posting sites, professional associations, links to articles for the field and a listing of books on the field available in the St. Paul Campus Career Center.

Alumni Careers and Alumni Profiles
Click on the above Alumni Careers and Alumni Profiles to get a list of job titles/employers for housing studies students.  From this page you will also be able to read profiles of several alumni with this major.