Housing and homelessness

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

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.

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems.

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems.

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).

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.

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.

This book presents an unflinching investigation of homelessness in the United States-a problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago.

Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Autobiography/MemoirThe heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me!

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.

An inside look at how community service organizations really workVolunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime.

"e;This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers.

Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments.

India needs to spend close to Rs43 trillion (about $646 billion) on infrastructure through to 2022.

An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us.

How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing?

This publication addresses the extent to which social work curricula in Kenya prepares graduates to handle issues of poverty and social development, the specific knowledge and skills that they are equipped with an existing gaps therein.

This volume contains framework papers prepared for a collaborative research project on Reproductive Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa, an initiative of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development.

Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular.

Hay formas de la desigualdad que el coeficiente de Gini no puede mostrar.

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

"La historia política de Colombia ha estado atravesada por un contexto de reiteradas confrontaciones bélicas.

El derecho al agua potable y el servicio público de acueducto necesitan criterios para analizar su constitucionalización, mediante la jurisprudencia.

La insurgencia, según David Harvey, invita al arquitecto a reconocer otros teatros diferentes a los propios y, por consiguiente, a descubrir el rico y diverso panorama de la ciudad informal, cuya autoformación representa un amplio espectro de prácticas y maneras de entender y de atenderla, muy oportunas para la innovación teórica.

A pesar de inversiones significativas y el desarrollo de una amplia gama de políticas públicas durante más de siete décadas, la marginalidad urbana persiste en muchas ciudades latinoamericanas.

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability of housing, or the lack thereof, going beyond conventional policy discussions to consider fundamental questions such as: What makes housing affordable and for whom is it affordable?

Myanmar's housing sector is struggling to cope with rapid urbanization, internal migration, and new demand from recent economic growth.

This publication explores strategies, mechanisms, and innovations applied by the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

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.

India needs to spend close to Rs43 trillion (about $646 billion) on infrastructure through to 2022.

This publication provides a standard compilation of supply and use tables (SUTs) for 19 economies in Asia and the Pacific to help them comply with the United Nations 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) recommendations.

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

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

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.

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

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

Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward.