Housing and homelessness

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook has been completely revised to examine the current state of housing policy in the UK.

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.

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.

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 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.

Over the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing aging population, declining birth rates, and widening social disparities.

Over the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing aging population, declining birth rates, and widening social disparities.

As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities.

This is a book about policy change that focusses on a single case study: the rise and resilience of the Australian policy for Real Estate Carry.

Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom either the boots or the straps are missing.

The number of homeless people in America has continued to grow at an alarming rate since the 1970s.

As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children.

As one of our country's major social problems, homelessness is often in the news.

A case-based, clinical guide applicable to a variety of settings, this book offers evidence-based expert advice on the difficult challenges inherent in working with underserved homeless populations.

A touching four-year chronicle of five girls coming of age in impoverished rural Maine and learning to forge their own paths through life's struggles.

This masterpiece of dogged and loving reporting will astonish you and touch your heart.

Now a Washington Post bestseller.

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 the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men-the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer-met in the most notorious chess match of all time.

One of the most talked about books of the decade, an inspiring true story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world.

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.

A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country.

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

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

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.

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

Lucy learns that life is both kind and cruel as she settles into her new South London home.

As a kid, Bernie Shakeshaft's mischievous and reckless behaviour led him to became known as the wild one of his devout Catholic family.

"e;A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis.

Here for the first time is the full horror and madness of sharing a house, told by someone who's been there.

LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021'One of the year's funniest books' i Paper'Funny, smart, soulful and sometimes devastating .

Join Raynor and Moth as their journey continues in the incredible and uplifting Sunday Times No.

Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass' heartbreaking memoir I Miss Mummy now combined in a single volume with her inspiring new title Please Don't Take My Baby, about a pregnant teenager desperate to keep her child.

Why we need to be better at ageing.

Harvard Square is at the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the business district around Harvard University.

Every child has the right to read.

An intimate portrait of India’s child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India.

What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically?

A groundbreaking account of the early history of rent control Written by one of the country’s foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation’s largest city from 1917 through 1929.

Homelessness is one of the most compelling social problems in the United States.

This foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the United States during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

Britain's streets have been transformed by the construction of new property - but it's owned by private corporations, designed for profit and watched over by CCTV.