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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness

Housing Policy in Latin American Cities - A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III (Paperback):... Housing Policy in Latin American Cities - A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III (Paperback)
Peter M Ward, Edith R. Jimenez Huerta, Maria Mercedes Di Virgilio
R1,567 Discovery Miles 15 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with these informal settlements, yet apart from the activities of Latin American Housing Network (LAHN), there has been minimal attention directed at the earliest portion of settlements that formed some 25-40 years ago that now form a large part of the intermediate ring of the cities. This volume breaks new ground by opening up a new generation of housing policy in Latin America cities with broader application for other developing countries. Its editors bring unique perspectives: Peter Ward coordinates the LAHN, and Edith Jimenez and Maria Di Virgilio are founding members of the network who have led project teams in Guadalajara and Buenos Aires respectively. Developed as a coordinated collaborative research project, the volume encompasses nine Latin American countries and eleven cities. The editors and contributors offer original perspectives on the policy challenges facing much of the low income housing of Latin American cities; document the changing nature of the "first suburbs"; present comparative survey findings in order to better understand the types of consolidated settlements that exist today; describe the physical nature of the dwellings themselves; identify the reasons behind market dysfunction that impede the operation of consolidated housing informal markets in Latin American cities; and outline a new generation of housing policies that will support the processes of densification, rehabilitation, and regeneration of these settlements. This book is the first and only composite overview of the research findings and advocacy of the generic policy lines that the LAHN identifies as central to a new generation of housing strategies and approaches. Researchers and practitioners working on housing theory, housing policy, comparative spatial and sociological research, and urban development issues will find the book highly significant.

The War on Slums in the Southwest - Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 (Hardcover):... The War on Slums in the Southwest - Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965 (Hardcover)
Robert B. Fairbanks
R2,166 R1,941 Discovery Miles 19 410 Save R225 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965--and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954. Despite being a region where conservative politics has ruled, these Southwestern cities often handled population growth, urban planning, and economic development in ways that closely followed the national account of efforts to eliminate slums and provide public housing for the needy. The War on Slums in the Southwest therefore corrects some misconceptions about the role of slum clearance and public housing in this region as Fairbanks integrates urban policy into the larger understanding of federal and state-based housing policies.

Homeless Children - Problems and Needs (Paperback): Panos Vostanis Homeless Children - Problems and Needs (Paperback)
Panos Vostanis; Contributions by Rob Wrate, Geoff Whitty, Sally Power, Pat Niner, …
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An increasing number of families are becoming homeless, often as a result of domestic violence, which leaves women and their school age children without homes. This multidisciplinary volume is the first to look at the variety of problems encountered by this group and to propose strategies for managing those problems. The contributors to this book provide evidence that homeless children often have more acute problems and needs than other children; as a result of the insecurity of their situation, they may experience physical health problems and developmental delay. They are also at high risk of emotional and behavioral difficulties such as sleep disturbance, eating problems, aggression, over-activity, anxiety, depression and self-harm. At the same time, due to their unstable situation, they are less able to access support from the health, education and social services. Homeless Children is divided into two parts. Part I defines the specific problems and needs of homeless children, and draws up practical guidelines for staff and agencies on recognizing and dealing with those problems. Part II looks at policy and service development for homeless families in education, health and social care, and concludes that conventional methods of provision have to be adapted to meet the specific needs of this vulnerable group.

Mean Streets - Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital (Paperback): Don Mitchell Mean Streets - Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital (Paperback)
Don Mitchell
R697 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persistence of homelessness in the contemporary American city. By updating and revisiting thirty years of research and thinking on this subject, Don Mitchell explores the conditions that produce and sustain homelessness and how its persistence relates to the way capital works in the urban built environment. He also addresses the historical and social origins that created the boundary between public and private. Consequently, he unpacks the structure, meaning, and governance of urban public space and its uses. Mitchell traces his argument through two sections: a broadly historical overview of how homelessness has been managed in public spaces, followed by an exploration of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence that expands our national discussion. Beyond the mere regulation of the homeless and the poor, homelessness has metastasized more recently, Mitchell argues, to become a general issue that affects all urbanites.

City of Segregation - One Hundred Years of Struggle For Housing in Los Angeles (Paperback): Andrea Gibbons City of Segregation - One Hundred Years of Struggle For Housing in Los Angeles (Paperback)
Andrea Gibbons
R734 R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Save R51 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

City of Segregation traces the central role racism has played in shaping modern Los Angeles-as it has shaped all US cities. Andrea Gibbons documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE's efforts to integrate LA's white suburbs; and the 2006 victory preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification enfolded within ongoing resistance to the criminalization and displacement of homelessness. This is a story of state-supported segregation, violent grassroots defense of white neighborhoods, police oppression, and growing political and economic inequalities. In studying these conflicts-and their cycles of victory and retreat-City of Segregation reveals the shape and nature of the racist ideology that must be fought if we hope to found just cities.

Ask Me Why I Hurt - The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them (Paperback): Randy Christensen Ask Me Why I Hurt - The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them (Paperback)
Randy Christensen
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Ask Me Why I Hurt' is the first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen, a Phoenix paediatrician who treats that city's homeless adolescents from a mobile clinic (a Winnebago refitted as a doctor's office on wheels) that he drives himself.

Workin' Our Way Home (Paperback): Ron Hall Workin' Our Way Home (Paperback)
Ron Hall
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"I saw his face." Deborah Hall's words launched the destiny of two men from very different worlds. Ron Hall was an international art dealer with upscale tastes; Denver Moore was a homeless drifter with a dangerous past. Millions have read about their unlikely bond through their first book, Same Kind of Different as Me-a New York Times bestseller and now a major motion picture. Workin' Our Way Home describes the ten years Ron and Denver lived together after Miss Debbie's death. Written in both Ron's and Denver's unique voices, their inspiring (and often hilarious) adventures include: Their sometimes-bizarre life together in the Murchison Mansion, Denver accidentally almost burning the house down-twice, The challenges involved with making a movie, Two visits to the White House, Travelling the country to raise awareness about homelessness, And much more. With both wit and wisdom, these pages reveal God's plan lived out through these men and those closest to them, including their passion to fulfill Debbie's dream of easing the pain and humiliation associated with homelessness, poverty, and inequality. "Whether we is rich or whether we is poor, or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless-ever last one of us-just workin our way home." -Denver Moore

The Street Children of Cali (Hardcover): Lewis Aptekar The Street Children of Cali (Hardcover)
Lewis Aptekar
R1,103 Discovery Miles 11 030 Out of stock
Hard Lives, Mean Streets - Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women (Hardcover, New): Jana L. Jasinski, Jennifer K Wesely, James... Hard Lives, Mean Streets - Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women (Hardcover, New)
Jana L. Jasinski, Jennifer K Wesely, James D Wright, Elizabeth E Mustaine
R2,336 R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Save R355 (15%) Out of stock

Although homelessness is a serious social problem in the United States, there is little direct information about the actual experiences of violence, past and current, among homeless people. This volume, based on the Florida Four-City Study, brings together interview material from 737 women, including structured quantitative interviews as well as in-depth qualitative interviews. The authors investigate how many homeless women have experienced violence in their lives, either as children or as adults, and then examine factors associated with experiences of violence, the consequences of violence, and types of interactions of homeless people with the justice system. The volume concludes with pragmatic and compassionate policy recommendations.

The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives - Second, revised edition (Paperback, 2nd New edition): G.John M. Abbarno The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives - Second, revised edition (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
G.John M. Abbarno
R2,184 Discovery Miles 21 840 Out of stock

The Ethics of Homelessness is a compilation of essays analysing the philosophical, legal and social implications of the seemingly intractable condition that people endure without a home, where their fundamental human rights, autonomy and privacy are compromised. Authors use literature and arguments to demonstrate the failings of public policy.

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