Affordable Housing Badge
Master the Fundamentals of Affordable Housing
Build your knowledge
- Build real-world skills in real estate, development, finance, and community engagement.
- Model complex housing transactions.
- Evaluate housing policy.
- Use financing methods to make housing more accessible.
Support the community
- Use current technology to model affordable housing transactions.
- Articulate the economic significance of affordable housing.
- Express stakeholders’ interests and functions during the development process.
Program Overview
Who is the badge for? Currently enrolled undergraduate students at UW–Madison.
What are the requirements?
- Earn a B or higher in REAL EST 560: Affordable Housing
- Earn a B or higher in either:
- REAL EST 420: Urban Economics
- REAL EST 306: The Real Estate Process
- Attend two affordable housing co-curricular events
- Pass an assessment with financial modeling and mock interview components
Jobs that use these skills
- Acquisitions analyst
- Affordable housing project manager
- Affordable housing underwriter
- Asset manager
- Community development program manager
- Development associate
- Development manager
- Development consultant
- Housing policy analyst
- Housing program specialist
- LIHTC application specialist
- Real estate development analyst
Have questions?
Contact Paul Aylesworth, director of Affordable and Sustainable Housing Development, at paylesworth@wisc.edu.