Housing and homelessness

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

If we do stop to think on housing, what do we see?

In context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices.

This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing 'bottom up' community initiatives successfully.

This book provides a comparative analysis of Chinese property law as depicted in the newly enacted Chinese Civil Code.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

This book outlines the emerging determinants, in a global context, for the provision of housing for the growing, shifting and changing populations.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe first comprehensive discussion of the historicalarchaeology of homelessnessIn atime when the idea of home has become central to living the American dream, The Archaeology of the Homed and the Unhomedbrings to the forefront the concept of homelessness.

This book describes in detail how the property market operates, giving a clear picture of the economics of development and the way which development issues are defined by (and in their turn have an effect on) community and individual needs.

Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in today's world.

How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing?

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.

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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

Wie lassen sich Prozesse der Gentrifizierung in ihrer Komplexität darstellen?

Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities.

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades.

The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality.

This book addresses key issues in housing policy through the lens of the philosophical concepts that underpin them.

Market Analysis for Real Estate is a comprehensive introduction to how real estate markets work and the analytical tools and techniques that can be used to identify and interpret market signals.

This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England's private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies.

When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "e;tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt.

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty.

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

Problem-Based Learning is a way of learning that presents a practical problem scenario in the context of which learning is conducted.

In 1945 the Labour Government set out to enable everyone to have a decent home, where people from all walks of life could live together.

Das Werk ist dem Thema "Aktuelles zum Stockwerkeigentum – insbesondere aus der Sicht des Notariats" gewidmet.

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "e;disorderly"e; people continue to occupy public space in many American cities.

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies.

Welche Hilfen kann eine sozialräumlich orientierte Soziale Arbeit Menschen mit sogenannter geistiger Behinderung bieten, besonders im Hinblick auf deren Selbstbestimmung im Alter?

This wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing is both policy-oriented and theoretical, drawing on a group of internationally-respected academics.

Originally published in 1995.

This wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing is both policy-oriented and theoretical, drawing on a group of internationally-respected academics.

Las plataformas digitales están ocupando una posición central y determinante en el creciente flujo de relaciones jurídicas y comerciales que en torno a ellas se articulan.

The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years.

In every Western democracy today, inheritances have a very profound influence on people's lives.

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overwhelmed spatial boundaries that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power.

What does the Bible say about poverty and our responsibility toward the poor?

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Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments, written by by leading theorists and empirical researchers offers an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept.

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

This new edition of bestselling textbook Introducing Property Valuation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of valuing real estate, helping them to progress successfully from basic principles to a more sophisticated understanding.

Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership: Sustainable Futures addresses property and land title as central mechanisms governing access to communally-held land and resources.

This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health.