The first installment of this course occurred in the fall semester of 2018. Our goal was to answer pressing questions related to social equity & the built environment posed by housing advocacy groups in Providence, Rhode Island. Our methods were explicitly informed by the tenets of community-engaged scholarship to merge local organizations' grassroots knowledge with Brown University's capacity for interdisciplinary research.  Using various sources of public data, we produced novel findings about the ongoing housing crisis that bolstered our partners'  ongoing efforts. We will continue this work in the coming semesters, in the hopes of creating a centralized bank of public data, tools, and research looking specifically at issues of social equity & the built environment. Feel free to share our findings, and reach out if you would like to collaborate in the future.