Housing and homelessness

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.

'Stuart does not like the manuscript.

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.

Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States-the most affluent country in the world-this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.

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.

Stop playing like a pawn and start playing like the kingYou already know just how enjoyable--and and challenging--the game of chess can be.

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*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable .

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally.

Why, after "e;the greatest economic expansion in history"e; and endless proclamations of "e;recovery,"e; do most Americans have to step over the homeless nearly every day?

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.

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.

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.