These insights have collectively shaped the findings and recommendations in this report. Spatial justice recognises that where we live shapes how we live – determining our access to quality housing, clean air, parks, cultural opportunities, and influence over decisions that affect people’s daily life.
As we see increasing crises across our cities around issues such as housing and homelessness, environmental decline, and widening social and economic inequalities, the question of spatial justice has never been more urgent.
This report uses a rights-based approach, using the language of rights and place to provide a practical framework and common language for understanding how spatial justice might be strengthened through deliberate, collaborative action-for communities, practitioners and policymakers alike.
The report promotes the Right to a Healthy City, Right to a Home; Right to Care; Right to Difference; and Right to A Voice, as well as calls to action for each of these rights, to provide practical starting points for policy officers, elected leaders, and built environment practitioners. Additionally, the report showcases measures that member cities have taken to action these rights already. The rights and the calls to action outlined in the report, provide a springboard for creating more just and equitable cities.
