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

Needed by Nobody - Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia (Paperback, New): Tova Hoejdestrand Needed by Nobody - Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia (Paperback, New)
Tova Hoejdestrand
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by increasing numbers of people went largely unrecognized by the state.

Being homeless carries a special burden in Russia, where a permanent address is the precondition for all civil rights and social benefits and where homelessness is often regarded as a result of laziness and drinking, rather than external factors. In Needed by Nobody, the anthropologist Tova Hojdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather, Hojdestrand describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population.

They are, she observes, "not needed" in two senses. The state considers them, in effect, as noncitizens. At the same time they stand outside the traditionally intimate social networks that are the real safety net of life in postsocialist Russia. As a result, they are deprived of the prerequisites for dealing with others in ways that they themselves value as "decent" and "human." Hojdestrand investigates processes of social exclusion as well as the remaining "world of waste": things, tasks, and places that are wanted by nobody else and on which "human leftovers" are forced to survive.

In this bleak context, Hojdestrand takes up the intimate worlds of the homeless their social relationships, dirt and cleanliness, and physical appearance. Her interviews with homeless people show that the indigent have a very good idea of what others think of them and that they are liable to reproduce the stigma that is attached to them even as they attempt to negotiate it. This unique and often moving portrait of life on the margins of society in the new Russia ultimately reveals how human dignity may be retained in the absence of its very preconditions."

Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939 (Paperback): Malcolm Graham Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939 (Paperback)
Malcolm Graham
R987 Discovery Miles 9 870 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A shortage of affordable new housing, builders choosing to build larger, more profitable houses, and a diminishing stock of cheap houses for rent. All this sounds very familiar today, but at the end of the Great War, scarcely any houses had been built for four years and there was political pressure to build 'Homes for Heroes', impelled to a degree by fear of revolution. Council housing, supported by central government funding, was the chosen solution in 1919, and this study by Malcolm Graham, a leading Oxford local historian for many years, examines the consequences in Oxford, then a university city on the cusp of change. Behind the city's Dreaming Spires image, housing for the working population was already in short supply, but an economy-minded and largely non-political City Council had always been reluctant to intervene in the housing market. In 1919, there was no hint of the city's industrial future, and the City Council saw the replacement of substandard houses as its main challenge. The meteoric rise of the local motor industry in the early 1920s led to rapid population growth and created a massive new demand for cheap housing. Dr Graham examines the uneasy partnership between the City Council and Whitehall which led to the building of over 3,000 council houses in Oxford between the Wars. The provision of these 'wholesome dwellings' was a substantial, and lasting, achievement, but private builders were in fact catering for most housing need in and around the city by the 1930s. The notorious Cutteslowe Walls, built to exclude council tenants from an adjoining private estate, reflected the way in which the growing city was being socially segregated. Dr Graham provides a fascinating insight into how modern Oxford evolved away from the university buildings and college quadrangles for which the city is internationally renowned.

Courts and Alleys - A history of Liverpool courtyard housing (Paperback): Elizabeth J. Stewart Courts and Alleys - A history of Liverpool courtyard housing (Paperback)
Elizabeth J. Stewart
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Liverpool was a burgeoning trading centre and rapidly growing town in the early 18th century, developing into a thriving mercantile metropolis by the 19th century. The demand for new housing was high, and court housing largely filled that need. Court housing was a form of high-density back-to-back housing around courtyards. It provided homes to nearly half of Liverpool's working-class people by the mid 19th century. Contemporary descriptions highlight the cramped, dark and often damp conditions in these houses. This book uses a range of historical and archaeological evidence about courts to consider their development, life within them, and the measures eventually taken to rid Liverpool of them. This book considers courts and their impact on people's lives in Liverpool for over 250 years. This book features international parallels to courts as well as some of the people involved in investigating this type of housing, providing historical context to this fascinating aspect of Liverpool's past.

Safe as Houses - Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell (Paperback): Stuart Hodkinson Safe as Houses - Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell (Paperback)
Stuart Hodkinson
R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s social housing to make way for higher rent paying newcomers, they have been promised a higher quality of housing. Councils have passed the responsibility for this housing to private consortia who amazingly have been allowed to self-regulate on quality and safety. Residents have been ignored for years on this and only now are we hearing the truth. Stuart will weave together his research on PFIs, regulation and resident action to tell the whole story of how Grenfell happened and how this could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country. -- .

Tidying Up - CLEAN YOUR SH*T NOW - Getting Things Done Effortlessly Through The Simple Art of Home Organising (Declutter and... Tidying Up - CLEAN YOUR SH*T NOW - Getting Things Done Effortlessly Through The Simple Art of Home Organising (Declutter and Life Organization) (Paperback)
Trey Woods
R482 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blighted - A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle (Hardcover): Margaret Stagmeier Blighted - A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle (Hardcover)
Margaret Stagmeier
R788 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R89 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta's grittiest corridors. From burnt-out, mold-infested buildings to traumatized classrooms, Blighted unfolds in the voices of ruthless drug dealers, phantom tenants, fearless landlords, the working poor, educators, and visionary local leaders. After purchasing the property from an absentee overseas owner, Marjy Stagmeier and her partners methodically tackled the crisis festering inside the gated 244-unit apartment property. Two years of relentless work later, Stagmeier reveals how the team that she led built community from chaos. Through on-the-ground, in-the-moment interviews with a wide range of stakeholders, Stagmeier demonstrates how marginalized housing perpetuates intergenerational poverty and the collapse of nearby public schools while showing the multifaceted challenges of improving dire living conditions. Blighted offers a unique insider perspective of the political, human, and economic challenges of delivering equitable housing in a market fueled by inflationary prices, insatiable demand, and competing and often dubious agendas. Summerdale's success is a bright model of how affordable housing, education, healthcare, and social capital can interconnect to build vibrant, sustainable communities-affordable housing communities, nearby schools, and the community at large. From there, kids, families, working people, and neighborhoods can thrive.

Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People - Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain (Hardcover): Melissa Garcia-Lamarca Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People - Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain (Hardcover)
Melissa Garcia-Lamarca
R3,632 Discovery Miles 36 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untold stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward housing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa Garcia-Lamarca's engagement with activist research in Barcelona's housing movement, in particular with its most prominent collective, the Platform for Mortgage-Affected People (PAH). What Garcia-Lamarca learned from fellow activists and the movement in Barcelona pushed her to rethink how lived experiences of indebtedness connect to larger political- economic processes related to housing and debt. The book is also inspired by feminist scholars who integrate the lens of everyday life into explorations of contemporary political economy and by anthropologists who connect macroprocesses to lived experience. Distinctive in how it integrates a racialized, gendered, and decolonial perspective, Garcia-Lamarca's research of mortgaged lives in precarious times explores two principal phenomena: first, how financial speculation is experienced in the day-to-day and differentially embedded in the dynamics of (urban) capital accumulation, and second, how collective action can unleash the liberating possibility of indebtedness.

American Dreams, American Nightmares - Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19... American Dreams, American Nightmares - Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hardcover)
Daniel Horowitz
R2,406 Discovery Miles 24 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Two decades punctuated by the financial crisis of the Great Recession and the public health crisis of COVID-19 have powerfully reshaped housing in America. By integrating social, economic, intellectual, and cultural histories, this illuminating work shows how powerful forces have both reflected and catalyzed shifts in the way Americans conceptualize what a house is for, in an era that has laid bare the larger structures and inequities of the economy. Daniel Horowitz casts an expansive net over a wide range of materials and sources. He shows how journalists and anthropologists have explored the impact of global economic forces on housing, while filmmakers have depicted the home as a theater where danger lurks as elites gamble with the fates of the less fortunate. Real estate workshops and popular TV networks like HGTV teach home buyers how to flip-or flop-while online platforms like Airbnb make it possible to play house in someone else's home. And as the COVID pandemic took hold, many who had never imagined living out every moment at home found themselves cocooned there thanks to corporations like Amazon, Zoom, and Netflix.

Scheming - A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 (Paperback): Sean Damer Scheming - A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956 (Paperback)
Sean Damer
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

When the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city's notorious slums after the First World War, they wound up reproducing a Victorian class structure. How did this occur? Scheming traces the issue to class-based paternalism that caused the reification of the local class structure in the bricks and mortar of the new council housing estates. Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city. By combining archival research of city records with oral histories, this book lets the locals have their say about their experience as Glasgow council house tenants for the first time.

American Dreams, American Nightmares - Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19... American Dreams, American Nightmares - Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Paperback)
Daniel Horowitz
R984 R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Save R84 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Two decades punctuated by the financial crisis of the Great Recession and the public health crisis of COVID-19 have powerfully reshaped housing in America. By integrating social, economic, intellectual, and cultural histories, this illuminating work shows how powerful forces have both reflected and catalyzed shifts in the way Americans conceptualize what a house is for, in an era that has laid bare the larger structures and inequities of the economy. Daniel Horowitz casts an expansive net over a wide range of materials and sources. He shows how journalists and anthropologists have explored the impact of global economic forces on housing, while filmmakers have depicted the home as a theater where danger lurks as elites gamble with the fates of the less fortunate. Real estate workshops and popular TV networks like HGTV teach home buyers how to flip-or flop-while online platforms like Airbnb make it possible to play house in someone else's home. And as the COVID pandemic took hold, many who had never imagined living out every moment at home found themselves cocooned there thanks to corporations like Amazon, Zoom, and Netflix.

A Practical Guide to Succession to Social Housing Tenancies (Paperback): Stephanie Lovegrove A Practical Guide to Succession to Social Housing Tenancies (Paperback)
Stephanie Lovegrove
R1,758 Discovery Miles 17 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Home: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Michael Allen Fox Home: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Michael Allen Fox
R298 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite of, or perhaps even because of these trends, ideas about home continue to shape the way people everywhere frame an understanding of their lives. In this Very Short Introduction Michael Allen Fox considers the complex meaning of home and the essential importance of place to human psychology. Drawing on a wide array of international examples he discusses what dwelling is and the variety of dwellings. Fox also looks at the politics of the concept of 'home', homelessness, refugeeism and migration, and the future of home, and argues that home remains a central organizing concept in human life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Pretreatment In Action - Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization (Paperback): Jay S. Levy Pretreatment In Action - Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization (Paperback)
Jay S. Levy
R684 R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Save R72 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Worlds Entwined - Clean Sci-fi Romance (Paperback, 3rd Update July 2021 ed.): J.L. Hendricks Worlds Entwined - Clean Sci-fi Romance (Paperback, 3rd Update July 2021 ed.)
J.L. Hendricks
R384 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R21 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Worlds Collide - Clean Sci-fi Romance (Paperback, 3rd Updated July 2021 ed.): J.L. Hendricks Worlds Collide - Clean Sci-fi Romance (Paperback, 3rd Updated July 2021 ed.)
J.L. Hendricks
R353 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shorty's Poems - from the streets of Melville, Johannesburg (Paperback): Thabile Gloria Mtshali Shorty's Poems - from the streets of Melville, Johannesburg (Paperback)
Thabile Gloria Mtshali
R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Speculations on the Question: What Is Housing? (Hardcover): Peter King Speculations on the Question: What Is Housing? (Hardcover)
Peter King
R1,717 R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Save R640 (37%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?, and its opposite question, what is not housing? The essay is organised around two distinct discourses around which housing can be framed. The first, which is the dominant discourse, is what I term policy thinking. This is where housing is seen solely in terms of policy formulation and action. The second discourse is private dwelling, which describes housing in terms of a private space used by households. Private dwelling might be seen as a product of policy, but, in actuality, it precedes policy thinking in being the very purpose of policy. Having made this distinction between policy thinking and private dwelling, and so stated in principle what housing is, the subsequent sections of the essay explore the nature of private dwelling in more detail and so substantiate the distinction between the two forms of discourse.

Invisible Nation - Homeless Families in America (Hardcover, New edition): Richard Schweid Invisible Nation - Homeless Families in America (Hardcover, New edition)
Richard Schweid
R2,742 Discovery Miles 27 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"By the second or third day that you're homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirty. You prefer to use the drive-through [at fast-food restaurants] where no one will see you. You begin to hide your family." (Invisible Nation). More than 2.5 million children are homeless in the United States every year. In every state, children are living packed in with relatives, or in cars, or motel rooms, or emergency shelters, the only constant being too many people in too little space. In a vividly-written narrative, experienced journalist Richard Schweid takes us on a spirited journey through this "invisible nation," giving us front-row dispatches. Based on in-depth reporting from five major cities, Invisible Nation looks backward at the historical context of family homelessness, as well as forward at what needs to be done to alleviate this widespread, although often hidden, poverty. Invisible Nation is a riveting must-read for anyone who wants to know what is happening to the millions of families living at the bottom of the economy.

Community Land Trusts and Informal Settlements in the Global South (Paperback): John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, Maria E... Community Land Trusts and Informal Settlements in the Global South (Paperback)
John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, Maria E Hernandez-Torrales
R384 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R21 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing? (Paperback): Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing? (Paperback)
Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs
R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it? In this book, established housing policy experts Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs expose the true economic forces behind Britain's housing crisis. Urging readers to see the crisis as a result of the 'property machine'; a financial system made up of banks and investors, developers, landlords, and real estate agencies that prioritises the interests of capital over social need. An unequal system that has been routinely protected by the policy decisions of successive governments. To overcome this troubling system and alleviate the crisis, the authors outline a series of innovative proposals that would improve housing conditions and tackle the inequalities expressed in relation to personal housing wealth. Allowing for the establishment of a fairer, more equal society, and a more stable economic future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The 'What Do We Know and What Should We Do About...?' series offers readers short, up-to-date overviews of key issues often misrepresented, simplified or misunderstood in modern society and the media. Each book is written by a leading social scientist with an established reputation in the relevant subject area. The Series Editor is Professor Chris Grey, Royal Holloway, University of London

Worlds Away - Clean Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Paperback, 4th Updated Content July 2021 ed.): J.L. Hendricks Worlds Away - Clean Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Paperback, 4th Updated Content July 2021 ed.)
J.L. Hendricks
R353 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life In An American Homeless Shelter - 2011 / Danbury, Connecticut (Paperback): Guy S Lagrotta Life In An American Homeless Shelter - 2011 / Danbury, Connecticut (Paperback)
Guy S Lagrotta
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Denizen of the Dead - The Horrors of Clarendon Court (Paperback): Stewart Home Denizen of the Dead - The Horrors of Clarendon Court (Paperback)
Stewart Home
R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cities and Homelessness - Essays and Case Studies on Practices, Innovations and Challenges (Paperback): Joaquin Jay Gonzalez... Cities and Homelessness - Essays and Case Studies on Practices, Innovations and Challenges (Paperback)
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III, Mickey P. Mcgee
R1,180 R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Save R407 (34%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem. The homeless today face the same challenges as in years past: poverty, tenuous or no ties to family and friends, physical and mental health issues, and substance abuse. Compared to the 1950s to 1970s, more homeless are now sleeping on city streets versus in shelters or single room hotels. Homelessness rates are affected by economic trends, lack of equitable and inclusive healthcare and housing, decline in public assistance programs, and natural and man-made disasters. This collection of essays covers case studies, innovations, practices and policies of municipalities coping with homelessness in the 21st century.

A Complex Exile - Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada (Paperback): Erin Dej A Complex Exile - Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada (Paperback)
Erin Dej
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Complex Exile shows that the homelessness sector inadvertently reinforces the social exclusion of people who are homeless. Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada every year. However, the very policies, practices, and funding models that exist to house the homeless, promote social inclusion, and provide mental health care form a homelessness industrial complex. These practices emphasize personal responsibility and individualized responses that ultimately serve to subtly exclude people. This book goes beyond bio-medical and psychological perspectives on homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, to call for a transformation in how we respond to homelessness in Canada.

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