Just shelter gentrification, integration, race, and reconstruction / Ronald R. Sundstrom.

Author/creator Sundstrom, Ronald Robles
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Descriptionxxiii, 248 pages ; 22 cm
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Abstract "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction is a work of political philosophy that examines the core injustices of the contemporary U.S. housing crisis and its relation to enduring racial injustices. It posits that what is required to achieve justice in social-spatial arrangements - what is otherwise called "spatial justice" - is to prioritize, in the crafting and enforcement of housing policy: individual moral equality and liberty, distributive justice; equal citizenship; and, due to history and continuing practice and effects of racial discrimination in housing policy and the housing market in the United States, corrective justice in the form of rectification programs to address the history of racism in housing policy should be implemented by local, state, and federal governments. To arrive at and illustrate this conclusion, it investigates aspects of the housing crisis closely related to the history of American racial injustice, such as gentrification, segregation, desegregation, integration, and, to a lesser extent, homelessness, and offers liberal reforms gestures toward a view broad view of justice that is reconstructive"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-229) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023034856
ISBN9780190948146 (hardback ; alk. paper)
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