Housing and homelessness

Mathieu lives in the street by choice, eschewing drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol.

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.

Originally published in 1970, EDRA 1 is a record of the conference proceedings of the 1st annual Environmental Design Research Association conference.

This book provides insights into commercial and residential real estate markets in one of the world's fastest growing regions: South Asia.

Die Arbeit legt systematisch und umfassend den grundrechtlichen Rahmen des Verkehrsmarktrechts dar und zeigt damit gleichwohl den verfassungsrechtlichen Rahmen für die einfachgesetzliche Ausgestaltung des Personenbeförderungsrechts auf.

This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and evolutionary governance theory.

The purpose of this book is to consider the neighbour conflict arising between airports and neighbouring owners of land, particularly with residential uses, as well as to assess the existing solutions applied to manage or resolve that conflict.

Urban Resettlements in the Global South provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens.

Housing has enjoyed a high place on the agendas of most socialist countries.

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments, written by by leading theorists and empirical researchers offers an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept.

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 embedding of energy efficiency in the management of individual housing organisations is crucial for the realization of current ambitious energy efficiency policies.

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

Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.

Wohnungslos und ausgegrenzt – wie kann geholfen werden?

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.

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Property asset management requires both day-to-day oversight of rental properties and an ability to maximize the potential of the portfolio through forward thinking and practical planning.

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.

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.

This book presents a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project.

One hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK.

Recurring and worsening flood incidence around the world has necessitated the understanding and strengthening of community-based flood risk management from an international perspective.

What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world?

Originally published in 1986, The High Middle Ages begins in the late twelfth century and ends, not with the arrival of the Tudor monarchs in 1485, but with the destruction of the wealth and power of the Church in the 1530s.

Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986.

Drawing on a broad range of international studies, this book looks in detail at how youth homelessness is variously defined, measured and explained, as well as discussing the solutions which are usually proposed for it.

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?

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 unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki, Finland.

The fourth edition of Housing Policy in the United States refreshes its classic, foundational coverage of the field with new data, analysis, and comparative focus.

America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis.

Can the state solve housing problems or does it create them?

What is it to feel homeless?

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

With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe.

Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating.

The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters.

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities.

El fenómeno de la colaboración público-privada en la gestión de servicios sociales y asistenciales alude a una realidad extremadamente compleja que no solo afecta a las estructuras, sino que alcanza a los cimientos del Estado social.

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

Examining the restitution of cultural property to Indigenous Peoples in human rights law, this book offers a detailed analysis of the opportunities and constraints of international law as a tool of resistance and social transformation for marginalized groups.

This book links where people live with their health.

Black Families and the Recession in the United States goes beyond the massive loss of property among African Americans during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers.

We live in a time where environmental pressures, social inequities and political derision are the backdrop of everyday life, and where resilience has become a routine prescription for coping with the conditions of modern existence.

Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing.