Housing and homelessness

This book looks at the current trends in Athens, the capital city of Greece, and focuses on the processes of globalization it has been undergoing during the last two decades.

First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.

Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective.

Legal rules and principles do not exist in isolation, but form part of a system.

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations.

This landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.

This book examines the violation of property rights in the two World Wars and in the interwar period centering on three keywords: sequestration, confiscation and restitution.

First published in 2007, this book examines the designs of seventeen architecture and design schools and answers questions such as: How has architectural education evolved and what is its future?

Housing affordability remains a concern for Malaysia and there is a growing mismatch between supply and demand.

Socially engaged architecture is a broad and emerging architectural genre that promises to redefine architecture from a market-driven profession to a mix of social business, altruism, and activism that intends to eradicate poverty, resolve social exclusion, and construct an egalitarian global society.

Collective Impact as a tool to bring about community change has seen remarkable growth in usage since 2011.

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

Despite Western society's preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that many of us take for granted.

When most people think of policies designed to help the poor, welfare is the first program that comes to mind.

This book by preeminent planning theorist Martin H.

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

The global demand for clean, renewable energy has rapidly expanded in recent years and will likely continue to escalate in the decades to come.

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future.

This book re-considers property law for a future of environmental disruption.

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

A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publicationPoor people spend their money living day to day.

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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.

Global processes have an increasing influence on local contexts and the nature and distribution of opportunities among populations across the globe.

Owning a property is a dream for many people, and borrowing from banks is often essential to achieve this.

Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets.

Tenant participation has grown substantially over the last decade, following government legislation, advice from professional bodies and development agencies, and promotion by all major political parties.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India.

Based on new evidence that challenges existing theories of urban inequality, Crankshaw argues that the changing pattern of earnings and occupational inequality in Johannesburg is better described by the professionalism of employment alongside high-levels of chronic unemployment.

Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing.

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Meaning and Use of Housing presents a re-evaluation of the use and meaning of residential environments.

In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women.

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers.

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

Over the last decade, Spain has become an emblem of the contradictory relationship between capitalism and housing.

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Acts: Annotations and Commentary remains the indispensable guide to the key legislation governing Irish property law, written by the leading authority in this area of law, JCW Wylie.

Effective school leadership depends on developing an understanding of people, organisational learning and organisational processes.

The housing problems of older people in our society are highly topical because of the growing number of retired people in the population and, especially, the yet-to-come increasing number of 'very old' people.

House prices and mortgage debt have moved to centre stage in the management of national economies, regional development and neighbourhood change.

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Housing: Design, Research and Education, demonstrated some of the diversity and richness of the research being undertaken in housing at time, which took as its starting point peoples' notion of home and the way in which a sense of home is captured distilled and expressed through various facets of design, and conversely the urgent need for architects and planners to take seriously the everyday scale and scope of peoples' home experience.

Housing stocks provide much more than just shelter.

The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment explains how and why homelessness among the mentally ill has persisted over the past 35 years, despite policy and program initiatives to end it.

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

Post-Rational Planning confronts today's threats to truth, particularly after recent news events that present alternative facts and media smear campaigns, often described as post-truth politics.

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

The Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book is a concise, practical guide to the legal and practical issues surrounding non-domestic rates and council tax.

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "e;irregular"e; settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities.