I never before realized how housing has such profound social effects. In the Learning Where You Live conversation, I learned about the impacts that housing can have on how our society operates. Professor Susanne Collins shared her research into segregated housing and how institutions can invest in different housing forms. She mentioned that this shift occurred after the financial crisis of 2008, which I just learned about in one of my other classes. In my class, we learned about the psychology of fear and how this contributed to the panic and crash of the stock market. We also considered how stimulus packages helped ease the country out of this downturn. However, Professor Collins’ perspective offered a new view on the aftermath of the crisis, and how it might have been different if the government had bought houses in suburbia, and was therefore able to regulate housing more closely. I enjoyed hearing this perspective, and learning how availability of housing has such a large impact on our society.