Housing and homelessness

Examining the fundamental relationship between housing and health, this perceptive volume illuminates how the health of those living with housing instability is affected by the day-to-day issues they face.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe.

Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "e;a nation of immigrants.

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and International Modernism-and its continued relevance.

In 1964 the United States began its War on Poverty with the passing of the Economic Opportunity Act, and in the following year Canada announced a similar attack.

Food banks, welfare cheques, and shelters for the homeless are the modern face of a timeless problem.

This is a study of the ideas and attitudes expressed in the extensive literature on poverty, pauperism and relief published in England between the 1790s and the 1830s.

In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic.

In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic.

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

Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward.

Discover the transformative journey of motorhome living in this practical guide to creating a fulfilling life on the road.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "e;unconditional war"e; on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans.

In the past, accounts of housing were dominated by the analysis of the problems of slum property at the bottom of the market, and the way in which public housing emerged from attempts to ameliorate the worst conditions, in an apparently inevitable process.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms.

'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how.

It was the railway system which moulded the American hobo into the legendary figure he became, especially in the depression years, but surviving until today.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Inequality is the key political issue of our time.

Inequality is the key political issue of our time.

Homelessness is on the increase in most European states and remains at stubbornly high levels across developed nations.

Homelessness is on the increase in most European states and remains at stubbornly high levels across developed nations.

____________________________________Liz Murray never really had a chance in life.

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives?

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives?

Despite Western society's preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that many of us take for granted.

Combining institutional ethnography and community-based research, Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them.

Combining institutional ethnography and community-based research, Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them.

Public housing projects were the original form of government supported housing for low-income residents.

Public housing projects were the original form of government supported housing for low-income residents.

Despite Western society's preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that many of us take for granted.

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness.

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness.

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry?

Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs.

Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs.

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century.

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century.

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry?

StreetCities charts the development of an alternative communal housing model for chronically homeless men and women in downtown Toronto.

This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales.

Every winter night the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter brings together society's most privileged and marginalized groups under one roof: Harvard students and the homeless.

This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

A heartwarming true animal story, for fans of A Dog's Purpose, A Street Cat Named Bob and Marley & Me.

THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED AMAZON PRIME'S BALLARD AND BOSCH LAPD Detective Ren e Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret that was meant to be snuffed out?

'It's highly readable and is written with wisdom and compassion' Kate Saunders, THE TIMES'Moving and poignant' STAR MAGAZINE'A well-wrought, honest book that is generous with its insights and tender in all the right places' DAILY EXPRESSThirteen-year-old Dan hasn't returned home and his parents don't know whether he's run away, been kidnapped - or something worse.