What does universalism mean in social housing - moral justification of social housing in Finland

Jutta Juvenius (2024) Cities, 152. Online first Abstract. This paper is about the justification for social housing and, more broadly, different considerations for universalist provision of public goods. Globally, social housing has undergone a retrenchment phase in recent decades; it has been impacted by the financialisaton of housing and critiques claiming social housing is an inefficient and unfair use of public money. Nevertheless, as examples from Finland show, social housing still has a...