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Our Pluralist Housing Ethics and the Struggle for Affordability

Tim Iglesias
University of San Francisco - School of Law



Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 42, pp. 511-593, 2007
Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-27

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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 pluralism among the housing ethics is the norm. The Article examines the challenges and opportunities that our housing ethic pluralism presents to the affordable housing movement. It identifies the housing as one land use in a functional system ethic as the single most promising ethic to advance affordability.

Keywords: housing, legal right, ethics, discrimination, planning, policy, affordability, social norms

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Date posted: April 26, 2007 ; Last revised: October 29, 2009

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Iglesias, Tim, Our Pluralist Housing Ethics and the Struggle for Affordability. Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 42, pp. 511-593, 2007; Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-27. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=982647


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