ABSTRACT
This chapter will consider some approaches to social justice in the context of a particular aspect of housing policy in England, namely the treatment of anti-social behaviour as a growing social problem. Although English examples will be used, the wider moral and political theory issues discussed should be relevant to other countries in the UK and Europe. The chapter will present outlines of influential political ideologies. It will illustrate and criticise differing approaches to social justice using a government proposal to respond to the apparently growing problem of anti-social behaviour by the reduction in housing benefit paid to a perpetrator. This would make them unable to pay rent which would lead to an eviction for rent arrears which is procedurally more simple than proving a case of anti-social behaviour.
