The Underdeveloped Offering of Housing Ethics: New Possibilities for Housing Studies

Despite the significant presence in other disciplines, ethics remains a topic that is under-explored in a housing context. This paper posits the implications of employing a framework of housing ethics, demarcating ethics from a notion of politics. The central contention: that housing ethics alr...

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Main Author: Simon Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences 2024-12-01
Series:Critical Housing Analysis
Online Access:https://www.housing-critical.com/home-page-1/the-underdeveloped-offering-of-housing-ethics-n
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Summary:Despite the significant presence in other disciplines, ethics remains a topic that is under-explored in a housing context. This paper posits the implications of employing a framework of housing ethics, demarcating ethics from a notion of politics. The central contention: that housing ethics already exist and structure housing systems and approaches, as evidenced in three examples from policy, theory and philosophy. This framework, with an outlined two-part grammar, illuminates the importance of descriptive claims behind the normative context that is of great interest to housing studies. Therefore, the argument presented does not just valorise the framework of housing ethics but too the necessity of philosophical engagement in the assumptions underpinning housing research, namely any foundational claims on the phenomenon of housing and the human relationship to it.
ISSN:2336-2839