Just Housing: The Moral Foundations of American Housing Policy

A new conception of housing justice grounded in moral principles that appeal to the home’s special connection to American life.

In response to the twin crises of homelessness and housing insecurity, an emerging “housing justice” coalition argues that America’s apparent inability to provide decent housing for all is a moral failing. Yet if housing is a right, as housing justice advocates contend, what is the content of that right? In a wide-ranging examination of these issues, Casey Dawkins c...