Strategies that advance urban justice must consider the relationship between housing, employment and displacement in order to understand how they intersect to produce social, spatial and economic marginalization (Gillespie et al., 2021). Bringing the theory of urban justice into practice in order to reduce displacement around sites of former industrial production requires a set of innovative tools and approaches that are capable of advancing the principles of equity, democracy and diversity, that challenge the politics of austerity urbanism, and that consider the scope and the scale at which they would be most effective. 

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A useful starting point can be found in inclusive Community Wealth Building approaches that seek, through local ownership of community assets - primarily land, money and labour - to produce inclusive prosperity with more egalitarian outcomes. 

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Growing numbers of cities and communities are employing CWB strategies such as employee stock ownership plans, land banks, community benefit agreements, targeted workforce development programs and community land trusts. These alternatives, if they are to hold promise as a new system, must move beyond marginal, small-scale, disconnected and scattered approaches.