“Housing estates in the 2020s” was a practice-orientated urban studies course arranged at the University of Turku in the autumn of 2021. Students learned how housing estates emerged with urbanisation, how their development has been studied, what kinds of reforms have taken place, and about the advantages and challenges of these neighbourhoods in the 2020s. Most importantly, the students worked in small multi-disciplinary groups to carry out a study analysing either or both of two predefined housing estates. Municipal and NGO practitioners were involved and reported that they benefitted from the insights given by the results.