Housing and homelessness

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

Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation.

In Break the Caste, George Gerharz unmasks common American misperceptions of poverty, inequality, and social mobility.

Who says that you can't learn from the games of amateurs?

The Residential Pathway - APC Essentials was written to facilitate and encourage candidates preparing for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to become Chartered Surveyors.

Back to the future!

This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues.

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.

Electricity shortages in South Asia are adversely impacting the region's socioeconomic development.

To help overcome remoteness, Pacific economies are looking to improve economic integration not only through ICT and transport network investments, but also by promoting greater competition and private investment.

What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Anderssons Positional MasterpiecesOne of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example.

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow.

The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds, of which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a major partner in Asia and the Pacific, delivering investments through six country programs (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, and Tonga) and one regional program for the Pacific.

Grandmaster Larry Kaufman presents a very effective way for White to disrupt the plans and demolish the position of players on the black side of the popular Grunfeld Defence.

No matter how unconventional, irrational or even crazy an opening is, sooner or later every chess player will have to face it.

The Climate Change Operational Framework 2017-2030 is intended to provide broad direction and guidance for enhancing resilience and strengthening climate actions in the operations and business processes of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The 1997 Asian financial crisis hit the region and became a defining moment for Asia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The Asia and Pacific region experienced continued growth.

The Sicilian Defence is Black's most popular reply to 1.

A rising proportion of the global population are moving to cities in search of a better standard of living.

Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume.

Despite significant economic growth in Asia in recent decades, millions of people in rural Asia still lack access to electricity.

The first edition of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Monitor tracks the development of the PPP business environment as well as the challenges of doing PPPs in nine of the developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

Good corporate governance practices reduce vulnerability to financial crises, reinforce property rights, reduce the cost of capital, and lead to greater capital market development.

When the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966, the Asia and Pacific region was undergoing a process of deep change.

This is a pivotal period in Sri Lanka's economic development.

Playing blitz is one of the great joys in every chess player's life.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the so-called "e;endowment effect"e; in the housing market.

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).

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).

In Windows: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the history, dating, development, care, repair and conservation of windows by authors who are experts in their fields.

When a chess master finds a winning strategic idea it is seldom by accident.

Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement.

Alexey Bezgodov provides a complete chess opening repertoire for Black against 1.

A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire for Black & White with the King's FianchettoWhen experienced chess teacher Emmanuel Neiman learned that some of his pupils hesitated to play in competitions for fear of being crushed in the opening, he wanted to help.

';Bobby Fischer gets up, tall, overweight, and slightly clumsy.

Award-winning author Charles Hertan knows what kids really need to know (and want to know) about mobilizing their pawns and pieces.

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This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities.

With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage.

The gaping holes in the U.

The gaping holes in the U.

***Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness******Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction***'Part memoir, part howl of fury' GUARDIAN'Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Raw and compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Shows the human cost of a genuinely Kafka-esque bureaucratic system' NEW STATESMANAt once a powerful memoir, unflinching polemic and probing investigation into modern homelessness in the UK, by award-winning investigative journalist Daniel LavelleDaniel Lavelle left care at the age of nineteen, and experienced homelessness for the first time not long after.

This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.

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

Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.

This book presents fresh ways of thinking about the future for all those involved in conceiving, planning, designing, funding, constructing, occupying and managing the built environment, to face the challenges, and grasp the opportunities, that lie ahead over the next few decades.

A one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States, this book covers risk factors for homelessness, societal attitudes about the homeless, and public and private resources designed to prevent homelessness and help those in need.

Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition.

This collection of documents contextualizes the ways in which Americans have addressed the evolving challenges of poverty throughout U.