Housing’s values: Housing as an ethical urbanism

Housing’s values are a key topic of public and policy debate, with discussions including the social value housing in form human rights or care, rising property values, value-capture infrastructure development, Indigenous land, for reproduction. With this mind, we engage various ways is valued, not as reductive exercise to find ‘the value’ but recognise valuations inform situated relational politics value. The analysis concerned how people make about well these different intersect constitute values. It common reduction associate its economic home Attempts reconcile typically involve proxy commensurate economic. However, pluralists resist such easy market, holding that plural incommensurable. Our more-than-political economy approach draws on anthropology moral philosophical theories conceptualise an agonistic To illustrate conceptual case, discuss three regimes Australia, is, capitalist real estate dominant regime, cultural tied land care ethics discourse. These cases highlight processes realisation, just within value, between them, animate tournament housing’s We interested claims argue utility theory show produced through competing claims, rather than try what as-an-object is.