Learn How to Build Housing Policy from the Ground Up.
2025 Housing Policy Bootcamp
Learn How to Build Housing Policy from the Ground Up.
Join this 5-week intensive online course designed to guide leaders through the policy development process.
Learn and practice concepts to help you assess policy options, build coalitions, refine your ideas, and work on a real-life policy proposal together with like-minded collaborators.
NOTE: HPLA Bootcamp is designed for those who have taken a previous HPLA, completed a similar course, or can complete a brief assessment showing preparation for the coursework.
Housing Policy Bootcamp
Continue your housing policy learning experience and gain additional leadership skills.
June 24 – July 22, 2025
Every Tuesday, 2:30 – 5pm PST
Course Fee: $650
Housing Policy Bootcamp Course Overview
The Housing Policy Bootcamp is a 5-week course designed to follow the Housing Policy Leadership Academy and provides dedicated housing leaders with the opportunity to dive deeper into leadership and coalition-building strategies and to apply the 5Ps framework by developing a pro-housing policy proposal and presentation.
Participants are expected to commit approximately 3 hours per week for 5 weeks to explore leadership and coalition-building strategies while working with a team to prepare a policy proposal and presentation.
At the end of the 5 weeks, proposals will be presented to housing policy practitioners who have the ability to elevate promising ideas and provide professional perspectives to further refine policy ideas and strategies.
What You'll Learn
Dive into eight expertly designed sessions, each focused on critical aspects of policy development and strategy:
- Policy Making Process Overview & Small Group Formation
- Assessing the Housing Ecosystem & Conduct Power Mapping
- Stakeholder Engagement & Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Assessing Policy Feasibility & Developing a Communications Strategy
- Final Policy Proposal Presentations to Expert Panel
Who Should Join the Housing Policy Bootcamp?
The Housing Policy Bootcamp offers an opportunity to put housing policy ideas into practice. Some exposure to housing policy is required to be successful in the class, and the ideal candidate is:
- A past or recent HPLA graduate*
- Elected officials and candidates
- Professionals from the housing, planning, development, and finance sectors
- Government agency staff
- Housing and community advocates
* Or other leadership or housing-focused program.
Course Requirements
Each Housing Policy Bootcamp session runs 2.5 hours with breaks, and participants should expect to spend 3 hours each week exploring leadership and coalition-building strategies while working with a team to prepare a policy proposal and presentation.
Ready to Join Us in 2025? Register Today!
Past Policies That Have Come Out of the Bootcamp
- Limited-Equity Housing Cooperatives
- Innovative Financing Programs
- Tenant Protection Ordinances
- Leveraging Underutilized Public Land
- Housing Incentive Programs
- And more!
