As one of the specialization options for TU Delft master-level architecture students, the Global Housing Graduation Studio is a year long research-focused course that engages with pressing issues regarding dwelling and urban concerns in cities experiencing rapid urbanization. With primary attention to the concerns of rapid demographic growth, the course seeks to tackle the many challenges of sustainable and fair urban development. Looking into urban renewal and redevelopment programs in Addis Ababa specifically, the course raises awareness on how the current systems of affordable housing production require urgent change. While acknowledging that there have been positive outcomes in the improvement of physical conditions of dilapidated neighborhoods and their living conditions, the curriculum seeks to question the negative effects of the relocation of dwellers, which has often uprooted people’s network of neighborhood-based social and economic ties. In bringing such unintended negative consequences into light, the course challenges its students to explore the role of architectural practices within this process, prompting them to design alternatives that could possibly remedy pressing dwelling and urban issues in developing territories, as well as understanding the increasing cross-cultural character of contemporary architectural practice.