Housing and homelessness

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies.

Informal Housing in the Global North proposes analytical and conceptual approaches to investigate the progressing 'informalisation' of contemporary housing in the Global North and beyond.

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines Americas ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness.

Discover the inspirational and true story of Charles Mully, from his beginning as a poor abandoned six-year-old Kenyan boy who goes on to defeat all odds and grows up to become a successful, powerful and very rich entrepreneur.

"e;This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers.

A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society.

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages.

In Break the Caste, George Gerharz unmasks common American misperceptions of poverty, inequality, and social mobility.

Don't have the time to study opening theory, or to figure out where you're going wrong with your games?

Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge.

Professional grandmasters study the latest wrinkles of their favorite openings.

Who says that you can't learn from the games of amateurs?

Back to the future!

This report marks the first stage of AFSUN,s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities.

This report argues that it is essential to understand the dynamics of the informal food retail sector because of its vital role in ensuring greater access to food by the urban poor.

The nadir of Zimbabwe,s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN.

Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector.

This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues.

Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a housing crisis in the UK.

Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a housing crisis in the UK.

The winner of 3 book awards as best book in it's category, Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff's first twenty years of unique and extensive work among homeless and street-involved youth and adults, in one of North America's largest urban centres-Toronto, Canada.

The Squatters' Movement in Europe is the first definitive guide to squatting as an alternative to capitalism.

If the supposedly disaffected young provide the subtext to so many of our social anxieties, then the young homeless loom larger here than most: our most vivid reminder of social exclusion, and exemplars too of what the tabloid press like to describe as the feckless, wilful poor.

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley.

"e;Millions of foreclosed homes and abandoned buildings on one hand; millions of Americans desperate for decent shelter on the other.

The housing problems of older people in our society are highly topical because of the growing number of retired people in the population and, especially, the yet-to-come increasing number of 'very old' people.

Issues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields.

For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside.

Despite the improved supply and quality of housing in the UK and Europe over the last 60 years, the future of housing remains uncertain.

Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition.

Cities and Digital Platforms unravels the transformative impact of digital platforms such as Airbnb and Zoom on urban landscapes, illustrating their profound influence on housing, city planning, and the broader economic fabric.

There is 'no place like home' sighs Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

Village Housing explores the housing challenge faced by England's amenity villages, rooted in post-war counter-urbanisation and a rising tide of investment demand for rural homes.

In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world.

This book, from social theorist Peter King, considers how a dwelling can protect and promote both our anxieties and our relationships.

This book, from social theorist Peter King, considers how a dwelling can protect and promote both our anxieties and our relationships.

Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.

***Shortlisted by 2021 National Urban Design Awards***Through seven London case studies of communities opposing social housing demolition and/or proposing community-led plans, Community-Led Regeneration offers a toolkit of planning mechanisms and other strategies that residents and planners working with communities can use to resist demolition and propose community-led schemes.

Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena.

Home to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana.

Home to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana.

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes?

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes?

From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.

From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.

I was murdered once.

Anyone s Guess How We Got Here is a road-trip.

A recent study found that 25% of UK homeless and at-risk young people identify as LGBT.

Above a secluded cove in Cornwall, Huck, a former fisherman, is squatting in an empty second home.

Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in popular consciousness.