Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction

Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction
ISBN-10
0190948140
ISBN-13
9780190948146
Pages
273
Language
English
Published
2024-01-26
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Ronald R. Sundstrom

Description

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.