Housing and homelessness

'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic.

This title provides a one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States.

Housing, Care and Inheritance draws on the author's long-standing research into housing issues surrounding the ageing society, a phenomenon which is now a concern in many mature economies.

How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don't know how to recognise it?

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse.

The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: 'Restoring What Was Ours' offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of land restitution programs.

A multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving in community-based organizations using decision models and operations research applications A comprehensive treatment of public-sector operations research and management science, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities addresses critical problems in urban housing and community development through a diverse set of decision models and applications.

This book examines the current state of, and emerging issues in relation to, the Torrens and other systems of land registration, and the process of automation of land registration systems in jurisdictions where this is occurring worldwide.

Humanitarian intervention is rising ever higher in international relations discourse, with many publications exploring the nature, legality and success of these interventions.

Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian onlineBorn of idealism, and once an icon of the Labour movement and pillar of the Welfare State, council housing is now nearing its end.

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control.

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life.

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse.

This book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing.

This is the first study of anti-discrimination law as it applies to housing law in Europe.

As culture is becoming increasingly recognised as a crucial element of sustainable development, design competence has emerged as a useful tool in creating a meaningful life within a sustainable mental, cultural and physical environment.

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts.

The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.

One of the nation's foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970sAs World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city's century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families.

In a groundbreaking longitudinal study, researches studied seven similar social housing neighbourhoods in Ireland to determine what factors affected their liveability.

In Griechenland erinnert man sich bis heute an die deutsche Besatzung der Jahre 1941–1944, im deutschen Gedächtnis hingegen ist dieses Kriegsgeschehen vergessen oder wird beschwiegen.

This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United States.

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies.

This book proposes operational approaches to public sector support to community-led development of urban low-income group social housing in the prevailing and medium-term.

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise.

A harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poorArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities.

This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of 'adequate housing'.

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India's economic liberalization.

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?

Covering the entire period from the colonial era to the late twentieth century, this book is the first scholarly history of the homeless in America.

This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people.

Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society.

Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC uses the case of Washington, DC to examine the past, present, and future of subsidized and unsubsidized affordable housing through the lenses of history, governance, and affordable housing policy and planning.

Conflicts over natural resources abound in India, where much of the population is dependent on these resources for their livelihoods.

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youthtold through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.

Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society.

What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce themDeep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children.

All countries aim to improve housing conditions for their citizens but many have been forced by the financial crisis to reduce government expenditure.

Across Europe, the number of co-housing initiatives is growing, and they are increasingly receiving attention from administrators and professionals who hold high expectations for urban liveability.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women is a comprehensive look at effective, low-cost solutions for helping women in the Global South out of poverty.

Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks.

The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use.

This book unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki, Finland.

Wohnungslos und ausgegrenzt – wie kann geholfen werden?

This book is an examination of the law of land registration in England and Wales, in the light of the Land Registration Act 2002, and in particular at the way land registration is influenced by, and in turn influences, the evolution of land law as a whole.

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats.

First published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on 'Future Visions of Urban Public Housing' held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This book examines the almost entirely neglected realm of public property, identifying and describing a number of key organizing principles around which a nascent jurisprudence of public property may be developed.