Just Shelter

Just Shelter is a must read for housing and poverty researchers and social justice advocates. Higly recommended.

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Ronald R. Sundstrom is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is also a member of USF's African American Studies program, teaches for the university's Honors College, and is the Humanities Advisor for the SF Urban Film Festival. His research has focused on the philosophy of race, mixed-race identity and politics, political and social philosophy, justice and ethics in urban policy, and African American and Asian American philosophy. He published several essays and a book in these areas, including The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice.

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Just Shelter 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 investigates gentrification, segregation, desegregation, integration, and homelessness. Taking current conditions and the historical practices that led to them into account, Ronald Sundstrom argues that to achieve justice in social-spatial arrangements we must prioritize the crafting and enforcement of housing policy that corrects the injustices of the past. If we do not address the history of racism in housing policy, we will never solve today's housing crisis.

Contenu

• Introduction

• Acknowledgements

• Chapter 1: Justice and Social Spatial Arrangements

• 1.1 Introduction

• 1.2 Spatial Justice

• 1.3 Equality and Social Spatial Arrangements

• 1.4 Distributive Justice

• Chapter 2: Open Cities and Reconstructive Justice

• 2.1 Introduction

• 2.2 Reaching for Transformation

• 2.3 Open Communities and Substantive Opportunity

• 2.4 Rectifying Enduring Injustice

• Chapter 3: The Trouble with Gentrification

• 3.1 Bad Techies

• 3.2 The Concept of Gentrification

• 3.3 Two or Three Cheers for Gentrification

• 3.4 Here's the Thing about Displacement

• 3.5 Harms and Inequality

• Chapter 4: The Harms of Gentrification

• 4.1 The Harms

• 4.2 Distributive Justice

• 4.3 Cultural Loss

• 4.4 Democratic Inequality

• 4.5 Pragmatic Rectification

• Chapter 5: Segregation and the Trouble with Integration

• 5.1 Know Your Place

• 5.2 The Concept of Social-Spatial Segregation

• 5.3 The Benefits of Segregation

• 5.4 The Harms of Segregation

• 5.5 Integration as Evenness and Mobility

• 5.6 Integration is not a Proxy for Justice

• Chapter 6: Reconstructing Integration

• 6.1 What Remains of Integration

• 6.2 Integration as Reconstruction

• 6.3 Outcomes, not Conversion

• Chapter 7: Conclusion

• 7. Discomfiting Justice

• Bibliography