Housing and homelessness

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

Designed for Habitat: New Directions for Habitat for Humanity presents 12 new projects designed and built via collaborations between architects and Habitat for Humanity(R).

This book assesses the role of the doctrine of insurable interest within modern insurance law by examining its rationales and suggesting how shortcomings could be fixed.

This textbooks provides a comprehensive examination of poverty, wealth, and economic inequality from a psychological perspective.

The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in diverse regions and countries.

City of Segregation traces the central role racism has played in shaping modern Los Angeles-as it has shaped all US cities.

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.

Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs.

Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history.

Originally published between 1961 and 1994, the volumes in this set sit equally comfortably in sociology and geography as well as housing studies.

Succession, Wills and Probate is an ideal textbook for those taking an undergraduate course in this surprisingly vibrant subject, and also provides a clear and comprehensive introduction for professionals.

This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.

In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of information to being directly involved in decision-making procedures.

Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime.

This edited book is about child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school-community that identified its causes and effects, the challenges it poses for schooling future generations, and a series of local solutions that personify Wales's devolved governments' social democratic social imaginary.

Homes fit for Heroes looks at the pledge made 100 years ago by the Lloyd George government to build half a million 'homes fit for heroes' - the pledge which made council housing a major part of the housing system in the UK.

The discipline of law and economics has earned a reputation for developing plausible and empirically testable theories on the social functions and the impact of legal institutions.

This book deals with Law of Waqf (Muslim Endowment Law) and its judicial response in India.

This book includes fieldwork from five continents and demonstrates the breadth of techniques used by environmental criminologists to understand crime.

This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United States.

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities.

Radical changes in the design of housing in post-war Japan had numerous effects on the Japanese people.

Real Estate Due Diligence is the first textbook on due diligence, the cornerstone of every successful real estate deal.

First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations.

Whether we have children or not we all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively.

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Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

Issues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields.

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats.

This second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color.

Key Facts Key Cases: Land Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Land Law module with ease.

This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

This volume contributes new insights to the scientific debate on post-Socialist urbanities.

Life now without access to electronic telecommunications would be regarded as highly unsatisfactory by most of the UK population.

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

Responding to the growing number of psychologically-informed services for people experiencing social exclusion and, in particular, homelessness, this book gives professionals the information and understanding they need to be fully informed in their practice with this client group.

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great 'equaliser', but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales.

People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction.

This book assesses the role of the doctrine of insurable interest within modern insurance law by examining its rationales and suggesting how shortcomings could be fixed.

This textbook looks at economic development at the local, community or regional scale.

With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multifamily buildings in urban areas.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

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.

Das Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2015/2016 setzt sich kritisch mit dem disziplinären Selbstverständnis von Planung und der Einbindung alltagsweltlicher Analysen auseinander.

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic.

Housing market renewal is one of the most controversial urban policy programmes of recent years.

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together.