***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.
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.
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.
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.
Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.
Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood's income level, educational attainment, or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole - the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification.
Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities.
Multi-owned properties make up an ever-increasing proportion of commercial, tourist and residential development, in both urban and rural landscapes around the world.
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.
This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed "e;urban villages"e; as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities.
Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments.
Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.
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).
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?
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.
