Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations

Abstract

Government-led housing is linked explicitly to building socially just and environmentally sustainable cities. However, marrying justice and sustainability remains an intractable challenge. This paper reveals how this challenge is both conceptual and practical. This review considers the hybrid notion of just sustainability and how these ideas are reflected within government-led housing, using South African examples to reflect on practical application. Understanding trade-offs and structural barriers to just sustainability is a prerequisite for realigning these interactions within society, over time and across scales. Furthermore, the challenges of applying just sustainability in practice are fundamentally linked with uneven knowledge approaches. Progress towards just and sustainable housing in theory and practice requires engaging with conflicting rationalities through transdisciplinary research and broadening knowledge approaches to consider non-dominant perspectives.

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