Housing and homelessness

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.

Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world.

In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home.

The fate of the dead is a compelling and emotive subject, which also raises increasingly complex legal questions.

Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions provides a comprehensive practitioner guide to the environmental issues that arise in property transactions.

Commercial conveyancing and property is a complex and diverse area with many potential pitfalls.

Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.

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.

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

The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented.

The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor.

Compulsory Purchase and Compensation is the essential guide to this complex and increasingly relevant area of the law.

In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the best, most sustainable, locations.

The provision and management of social housing for those who are unable to access the housing market is essential to the maintenance of the fabric of society.

First published in 1978, the objective of this book is to provide an authoritative and selective overview of current, user-orientated programming methods within the field of environmental design.

Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city.

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.

In the world's developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power - from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of foreign investment.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

This book constitutes volume one of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa.

Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children's relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them.

Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas.

This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture.

Housing in the European Countryside provides an overview of the housing pressures and policy challenges facing Europe, while highlighting critical differences.

This book examines real estate markets and urban development in Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean (CAMEC).

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

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.

This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?

Explores new geographies of urban poverty, examining the citizenship, legal status and politics of the rehabilitated poor.

Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China?

This book is an interdisciplinary study of struggles for indigenous self-determination and the recognition of indigenous' territorial rights in Latin America.

A clear and concise introduction to the land law of England and Wales written in the Clarendon style: as a letter to a friend, with a minimum of footnotes and statutory material.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

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

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world.

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice.

This fourteenth edition of Law Made Simple marks the fiftieth year of the publication for one of the best-selling UK Law books.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage examines various notions of property in relation to intangible cultural heritage and discusses how these ideas are employed in rights discourses by governments and indigenous and local communities around the world.

Conveyancing Practice in Scotland is the only comprehensive practical guide to managing conveyancing transactions in Scotland.

Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018.

This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development.

Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world.

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation.

Combining insights from two distinct research traditions-the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place literature that focuses on crime in micro-geographic units-this book explores the spatial scale of crime.

The Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets: New Frontiers introduces the fundamental principles of urban economics, housing, and large-scale real estate development in Latin America and equips aspiring investors and developers with the foundations for success in a unique, dynamic region.

Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the ways in which the concept 'resilience' has been addressed in social sciences research.