This course delves into community-led practices, strategies, and tools promoting housing justice and equitable neighborhood development in cities. Often led by women, people of color, and minorities, these socially-oriented endeavors are becoming vital as communities experience an increasing profit-driven development and continuous crises. Uncovering local narratives and activist practices, students will explore how tenant unions, community land trusts, limited-equity housing cooperatives, mutual aid networks, and other community-controlled forms of organizing and development are gaining ground through solidarity and coalition-building across neighborhoods. Applying that knowledge, students will design organizing, mapping, planning, and advocacy tools and projects to contribute to ongoing community-led visions, neighborhood-based initiatives, and social justice movements. The course combines radical listening, militant research, mapping, and design strategies to prepare students interested in engaging and advancing community efforts to preserve low-income, underserved, and immigrant communities.