Revel Sims’ and his Students Study Housing Insecurity with the Tenant Resource Center

CLS Core faculty member Revel Sims’ teaching was featured in a recent article by the College of Letters and Science’s Instructional Design Collaborative on community-based learning in UW-Madison classrooms. Prof. Sims and his students partnered with Madison’s Tenant Resource Center to quantify and map evictions in Dane County, interviewing Spanish-speaking residents of the county about their experiences with housing insecurity. In addition to providing the Tenant Resource Center and its clients with information needed to advocate for housing justice, the class offered Prof. Sims’ students an opportunity for rich learning beyond the classroom and a way to make a difference in concrete problems faced by communities that are UW-Madison’s neighbors. Revel Sims is an Associate Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies.