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Just Shelter is a provocative work of applied philosophy that succeeds on two levels simultaneously. First, it offers a timely and compelling intervention into important contemporary debates around justice in social-spatial arrangements. Second, it vindicates the reconstructive and transformative potential of liberal egalitarian theory to redress historically entrenched patterns of racial injustice. It deserves a wide readership inside and outside of the academy. * Sharon Stanley, author of An Impossible Dream?: Racial Integration in the United States * This is an important book on the moral imperative to address homelessness, inequality, and racial segregation. Deftly drawing on historical and empirical research, Ronald R. Sundstrom offers a vision of a society that provides real equality of opportunity to all its members. Just Shelter will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the myriad problems surrounding housing in the United States. * Andrew Valls, author of Rethinking Racial Justice * Equally conversant in the relevant historical and social science research, as well as liberal egalitarian philosophy and urban political theory, Ronald R. Sundstrom is both well positioned and uniquely qualified to speak to some of the most incendiary debates of our time, subjects that range from neighborhood segregation and the homelessness crisis to gentrification and reparations. He persuasively unsettles many of our assumptions about these and related phenomena while reminding the reader of the importance of crafting policies that are pragmatic and feasible. * Michael S. Merry, author of Educational Justice: Liberal Ideals, Persistent Inequality and the Constructive Uses of Critique *

"""Just Shelter is a provocative work of applied philosophy that succeeds on two levels simultaneously. First, it offers a timely and compelling intervention into important contemporary debates around justice in social-spatial arrangements. Second, it vindicates the reconstructive and transformative potential of liberal egalitarian theory to redress historically entrenched patterns of racial injustice. It deserves a wide readership inside and outside of the academy."" -- Sharon Stanley, author of An Impossible Dream?: Racial Integration in the United States ""This is an important book on the moral imperative to address homelessness, inequality, and racial segregation. Deftly drawing on historical and empirical research, Ronald R. Sundstrom offers a vision of a society that provides real equality of opportunity to all its members. Just Shelter will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the myriad problems surrounding housing in the United States."" -- Andrew Valls, author of Rethinking Racial Justice ""Equally conversant in the relevant historical and social science research, as well as liberal egalitarian philosophy and urban political theory, Ronald R. Sundstrom is both well positioned and uniquely qualified to speak to some of the most incendiary debates of our time, subjects that range from neighborhood segregation and the homelessness crisis to gentrification and reparations. He persuasively unsettles many of our assumptions about these and related phenomena while reminding the reader of the importance of crafting policies that are pragmatic and feasible."" -- Michael S. Merry, author of Educational Justice: Liberal Ideals, Persistent Inequality and the Constructive Uses of Critique"

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Ronald R. Sundstrom is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is also a member of USF's African American Studies program, teaches for the university's Honors College, and is the Humanities Advisor for the SF Urban Film Festival. His research has focused on the philosophy of race, mixed-race identity and politics, political and social philosophy, justice and ethics in urban policy, and African American and Asian American philosophy. He published several essays and a book in these areas, including The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice.

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