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Our Pluralist Housing Ethics And The Struggle For Affordability, Tim Iglesias
Our Pluralist Housing Ethics And The Struggle For Affordability, Tim Iglesias
Tim Iglesias
Building on recent scholarship, this Article explores the five “housing ethics” that have historically shaped U.S. housing law and policy: (1) housing as an economic good, (2) housing as home, (3) housing as a human right, (4) housing as providing social order, and (5) housing as one land use in a functional system. The “housing ethic” framework brings all of America’s housing law and policy under one conceptual roof. The Article argues that each of these housing ethics is deeply embedded in American housing policy and law, and that none has ever achieved a complete hegemony, i.e., that coexistence and …