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As Anthony W. Orlando claims in his book, "Where we live isn't just a building and a plot of land. The concentration of Black families in inner cities and the flight of White families to the suburbs had important effects not only on the quality of housing in Black neighbourhoods but also on the opportunities their residents faced. Given that banks gave the loans to the safest homebuyers, other institutional lenders emerged: building and loan associations. [Extracted from the article]

It led to housing advocates such as Catherine Bauer voicing their opinion about housing as 'a fundamental right to which every citizen is entitled, the provision of which becomes a responsibility of government' (p. 119). The first part (chapter 1) contains the discussion of important concepts such as "housing justice" and the "materials" of justice on which a theory of justice is built and that distinguish one theory from another. In his beautifully crafted book, Casey J. Dawkins deals with the issue of "housing justice", a very topical issue in times of severe problems of housing affordability and homelessness in the United States and in much of the rest of the developed world. [Extracted from the article]