Assess learners' ability to analyze stakeholder conflicts and policy trade-offs in local affordable housing initiatives. Scope: identify and map key stakeholders (residents, developers, lenders, local government, nonprofits), articulate competing interests and power dynamics, evaluate trade-offs among affordability, density, displacement, fiscal impact, regulatory constraints, and political feasibility, and recommend evidence-based policy options and negotiation strategies while anticipating unintended consequences; includes brief case scenarios for applied analysis.