Book: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City. Author is Matthew Desmond.

This tells you a bit about the class:

Understanding of the basic community development process and terms.
Ability to review and analyze community development issues affecting the economy, land use, housing and other local concerns.
Ability to write professional recommendations explaining community development issues and applying community development theories and guidance on the implementation phase.
Gaining hands-on experience with a community development project.

In short, the class will get you ready to take part in reviewing, understanding, designing and building a community development project. This course is designed to give students a baseline of the multi-disciplinary approach to community development, being able to process procedural and programmatic ideas and models, able to verbally discuss, analyze, and present ideas to community groups, and make entry level recommendations on steps to creating a more sustainable and cohesive local impact.