Housing and homelessness Books

Book SynopsisBased on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.Dasani comes of age as New York City's homeless crisis is exploding. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani leads her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental drug addiction, violence, housing instability, segregated schools and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system.When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love? By turns heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality.Trade ReviewAndrea Elliott's reporting has an intimate, almost limitless feel to it... The result of this unflinching, tenacious reporting is a rare and powerful work whose stories will live inside you long after you've read them. * New York Times *A monumental work of journalism * Sunday Times *This is non-fiction writing at its best - uncluttered, evocative and well-researched... This is not a polemic. Elliott bears witness but does not preach; she shows but rarely tells. She does not pretend to be a neutral bystander (how could you immerse yourself in a struggling family for eight years and not root for them?) but does not intrude on her own storytelling. It is not a morality play either. The villains are too elusive and the heroes too flawed for that. This is structural, generational poverty at work in all its gruesome, demeaning inhumanity and punitive, institutional brutality. -- Gary Younge * New Statesmen *A gripping and propulsive work of narrative non-fiction . . . [an] indelible, virtuosic portrait of contemporary America * Financial Times *A triumph of in-depth reporting and storytelling ... a visceral blow-by-blow depiction of what 'structural racism' has meant in the lives of generations of one family ... above all else it is a celebration of a little girl-an unforgettable heroine whose frustration, elation, exhaustion, and intelligence will haunt your heart. -- Ariel LevyAn intimate exploration of poverty and racism in the U.S., as well as a portrait of a young person's resilience * Time *Invisible Child is hands down the best book I have read in years. Astonishing, remarkable, shocking, powerful, gripping, compelling. All of these words apply and more. This is a book of immense importance, written with tremendous craft and skill, but also compassion and verve . . . For those who have not read Invisible Child I am jealous, you are in for an extraordinary ride. Simply put, this is a masterpiece. * Thomas Harding, bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake *Sure to linger in the minds of many readers long after the last page has been turned... What easily could have been, in lesser hands, voyeuristic or sensational is instead a rich narrative, empathetically told. Elliott is a masterful storyteller and, by sharing Dasani's story, she calls on all of us to dismantle the systems that so often failed her and countless others * NPR *A tour de force * The i *An eye-opening, heartbreaking and deeply enraging book about the realities of contemporary US inequality * Irish Times *A tender portrait of a family, and a tour of America's broken welfare systems and racist policies. * The Atlantic *A fascinating and powerful epic * Stylist *A towering feat of reporting that paints, layer by layer, an extraordinary portrait of a child, a family, a city, and the nation that produced them. From start to finish, she sustains an insatiably curious and deeply empathetic focus on worlds that so many people work hard, if mostly unconsciously, to never really see. * Howard W. French, author of Born in Blackness *A wonderful and important book. -- Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond MountainsInvisible Child is a tour de force of immersive reporting and a meticulous and unflinching depiction of intergenerational American poverty... Elliott exposes the granular texture of daily life with deep empathy, the punishing sameness of material want, and in the process paints a sweeping portrait of contemporary American life. -- Anthony Lukas Prize Judge’s Citation * Nieman Foundation *

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Book Synopsis14 Nights is a timely and essential conversation about how we understand homelessness in the UK. Compiled by The Archer Project – a charity based in Sheffield who have been providing support for the homeless community for over 30 years – the book is based on a blog documenting the CEO’s two-week sleepout to raise awareness of the challenges surrounding rough sleeping. It also features reflections shared by those with lived experience of homelessness, offering a vital insight to help us translate statistics into the stories of individuals with desires and difficulties not so very far from our own. Every copy of this book will support the charity’s essential work and also aims to change our perception of homelessness, helping those most in need to rebuild their lives.

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Book SynopsisThis book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural livelihoods at both personal and community level. Developed around four intersecting themes: explaining houses and housing in rural settings; exploring affordability in the context of aspirations and vulnerability; rural development agendas involving housing and communities; and construction for resilience in rural communities, the book provides an overview of some of the little understood and sometimes counter-intuitive best practices on rural affordability and affordable housing that have emerged in developing economies over the last thirty years. Drawing on practice-based evidence this book presents innovative ideas for harnessing rural potential, and empowering rural communities with addeTable of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesLost of boxesPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Housing in rural settings3. The nature-culture determinants of rural housing4. Affordable houses5. Housing affordability6. Materials and resources in construction of affordable houses7. Global practices in rural development8. Vulnerability in rural communities9. Resilience in rural communities10. Sustained growth and development11. EpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisOur feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis - from the author of They Call It Love

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Book SynopsisUntil 1969, the City of Winnipeg had undertaken only two public housing projects even though the failure of the market to provide adequate housing for low-income Winnipeggers had been apparent since the beginning of the century. By 1919, providing housing was a significant issue in municipal politics that was embraced by civic officials, professionals, reformers, labour leaders and social democratic politicians. It also became a proxy issue for refighting the 1919 General Strike at city hall. However, Winnipeg's business community proved effective opponents of public housing.The struggle for public housing was also a struggle for democracy. Up until the 1960s, public housing required approval by a referendum in which only the city's property owners could vote. This rule deprived close to half the city's voters - and virtually everyone who might qualify to live in public housing - of the right to vote. Over decades that barrier to democracy was whittled away. An NDP provincial government elected in 1969 added 11,144 units of public housing to the existing 568 units.Today public housing is once more under attack. Rather being treated as valued public assets, they are considered embarrassing encumberments that should be sold as part of a process of turning public housing over to the private sector. The struggle to protect and expand the provision of non-profit housing is undermined by the rupture in political memory of the long struggle to build public housing and the current political situation.

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Book Synopsis'Fascinating ... Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician' - PANDORA SYKES 'Excellent' - NOVARA MEDIA 'Important heartbreaking and shocking ... this is a vital read.' THE TIMES ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE TIMES, DAZED, FINANCIAL TIMES, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN In twenty-first-century Britain, unsafe homes are a matter of life and death. Award-winning journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad decisions to show how the British dream of secure housing for all has withered. This fierce and moving account tells the stories of those on the frontline, illuminating the ways this national emergency cuts across the country, where the safety net of social housing has unravelled in exchange for profit, and communities have been devastated beyond recognition. Everybody deserves the chance of a safe and stable home, and this urgent, ground-breaking book leads the way.Trade ReviewSo important -- Emma Gannon * Ctrl Alt Del *A must-read that explores the housing crisis and its devastating impact on our health, communities and political landscape. * Cosmopolitan *A major new book on the history and politics of renting * Evening Standard *There is nobody better placed to write a book that tells the stories of 'Britain's housing shame' * Metro *Fascinating, incendiary, rigorously well-researched. Tenants should be compulsory reading for every politician -- Pandora SykesIt is impossible to read this book without becoming almost incapacitated with rage. This astute analysis examines the toxic lottery of Britain's housing crisis,layingbare our state's lack of fitness for purposeand the devastating outcomes of having no fixed abode -- Lynsey Hanley * The Guardian *An astonishing feat of journalism, storytelling and compassion. I thought I knew about Britain's housing crisis - I did not. ... The system is designed so that the people who rely on it the most feel disempowered - Vicky's journalism is single-handedly changing that. -- Lucia Osborne-CrowleyAn important book by a journalist who has done so much to shine a light on (and change) Britain's broken housing sector -- Lewis Goodall, Policy Editor at BBC NewsnightOpen-minded and formidably informed, Spratt is a compelling narrator. Her stories of people wrenched from their homes by so-called no-fault evictions are startling and infuriating ... Like baring your bank account to be probed by a landlord's algorithm, the book is an experience so bracing it forces you to step back, look at the whole wretched system and think: "Why do we put up with this?" * The Times *Vicky Spratt is one of the best equipped people to wade into this country's housing crisis ... [Her book's] radical plan for rectifying a broken system will leave you feeling hopeful for the future. * Refinery29 *The housing crisis, for so long barely registered by the political class, is beginning to be told by those at the hard end of it. Tenants describes in grim detail just how bad things really are in the UK ... It's long overdue [and] really worth your time. Vicky Spratt is an expert on the housing crisis [and] a brilliant journalist who's great on the data ... some of the anecdotes from her book are terrifying - I really recommend it. -- Aaron Bastani * Novara Media *A copy should be handed to the "people who make decisions about policy" and to anyone who thinks that young people can't buy homes as they "don't work hard enough" - just read this. -- Rebecca Smith * The Skinny *Politicians would do well to read "Tenants", in order to understand the world lived in by so many voters. Victoria Spratt is doing an excellent job of explaining the realities of the private rented sector and the housing crisis in general. [This] isn't just an authentic book, it isn't just an accurate book, it's that rarest of things - a timely book that tells the reality of renting right now and it doesn't disappoint. -- Ben Reeve Lewis, co-founder Safer Renting * Cambridge House *Vicky Spratt's excoriating Tenants shows how Generation Rent is being let down, and reminds us that the power dynamic between renters and their landlords was not always so skewed. Open-minded and formidably informed, Spratt is a compelling narrator, charting the way that governments since the 1980s absolved themselves of responsibility for housing and stripped back protections for renters. [Tenants] is an experience so bracing it forces you to step back, look at the whole wretched system and think: "Why do we put up with this?" That should have politicians feeling rather scared. -- James Riding * The Times *Important -- ShelterLeading Journalist Vicky Spratt's important new book [powerfully] blends an overview of political failure with the personal experiences of those going through eviction. -- Alastair Harper * Shelter *Spratt not only provides an overview and analysis of Britain's housing history, welfare state and the plethora of issues renters are facing today, she gives solutions - readers are urged to think big, think radically and act fast. -- Diyora Shadijanova * Huck Magazine *Tenants is as much an astute political and social analysis as it is a moving, radical call to arms. ... You'll come away from this book seething, but stay armed with Spratt's clear view of how we solve this crisis -- Anna Caffola * The Face Magazine *Vicky Spratt reveals how our dysfunctional housing system is causing dire consequences for people drawing on personal experiences from across the country, [and] calls for a radical reimagination of the housing system. -- Adele Walton * Dazed *Vicky Spratt's ferocious debut Tenants is a comprehensive account of a dysfunctional system, in which constant precarity has become the norm for millions across Britain. ... relentlessly clear-sighted ... rigorous as well as deeply empathetic -- Francisco Garcia * i Paper *"I really haven't a clue how to set about the job." Harold Macmillan committed those words to his diary in 1951, shortly after Winston Churchill asked him to sort out Britain's housing crisis. Macmillan lacked the counsel of Vicky Spratt. * The Times *Reading this drove me into a fury -- David Freeman * Author Archive *Densely researched and makes plain how paper thin is the divide between the cheaper end of renting and being thrown out on to the street ... Argues convincingly that investing in more social housing would benefit everyone, not just those who live in it. * TLS *An urgent and necessary exploration of the housing crisis from one of Britain's leading journalists -- Sirin KaleVicky Spratt has written the essential guide to understanding Britain's housing crisis. Anyone who has ever questioned the process that transformed our homes into speculative financial assets needs to read this book and then send a copy to their MP. -- Dr Kojo Koram * Birkbeck College, University of London *The national need for living space is desperate - as illustrated in Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency by the journalist Vicky Spratt. Show[ing how] the country is blighted by landlordism, homelessness and Thatcher's legacy, [Tenants reveals] the human cost of a genuinely kafka-esque bureaucratic system. -- Anoosh Chakelian * The New Statesman *Vicky Spratt's shocking and incisive indictment of private renting in Britain describes how functional and productive lives unravel as people lose their homes, sense of self and feeling of belonging in the world. Packed with powerful narratives but also a number of policy alternatives, [Tenants] is based on myriad human stories showing home as a central aspect of people's lives and cornerstone of trust in society and its institutions. The case studies are shocking and sobering .. [but] the shifting nature of the discourse around the housing crisis is significant as they herald a real possibility of change. -- Anna Minton * The Financial Times *A thorough and devastating analysis of Britain's current housing crisis. -- Sadhbh O'Sullivan * Refinery 29 *Illuminating and emotive - [Tenants is] a rallying cry and a must read -- Georgia Healey * Sister Magazine *Searing and passionate, Spratt's essential volume places first hand testimony front and centre in a devastating enquiry into the state of rented accommodation in modern Britain and how decades of bad decisions have left huge numbers of tenants extremely vulnerable. -- Waterstones * Best Books of 2022 *An important examination of how the UK has found itself in such a bad housing crisis that one third of young people today will be renting privately "from cradle to grave". Vicky Spratt is the housing correspondent of the i newspaper and the founder of the Make Renting Fair campaign. She explains how governments since the 1980s have steadily moved away from providing affordable rental homes for people while stripping back most protections for tenants. The case studies of renters in the private sector whose lives are derailed after losing a secure home are heartbreaking and shocking. Whether you are a tenant or a landlord, or indeed a government minister, this is a vital read. -- Tom Knowles * The Times Best Business Books of 2022 *Tenants charts the diabolical state of housing in Britain, written by the i's brilliant housing correspondent, Vicky Spratt. Tenants doesn't hit you round the head with a gazillion dispassionately-listed facts and figures, nor is it full of unnecessarily complicated housing jargon - instead, it invites you into the world of Britain's renters, painting a vivid picture of their plight in the process. Using their stories as starting points, Spratt carefully untangles the thorny mess of the housing crisis, explaining how we got here, who exactly is impacted and how we can build a fairer society with shelter for all. * Dazed Magazine Best Books of the Year *One of the most important books on the Housing Crisis to come out in the past year - authoritative, well researched and speaking truth to power. We can't praise this book enough. * Hope into Action *Victoria Spratt is lucid [and] humane about our complex and deep rotted problems, without becoming cynical about the possibilities for change. A very moving book about the true meaning of sanctuary. -- Andy West, author of The Life Inside

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Book SynopsisAs cities expand and rents rise, what does it really mean to have a home? 'A marvel, by an inspiring and deeply humane writer' - Philippe Sands A home is important because it offers sanctuary and privacy. It can help improve mental health and emotional resilience, and it can help break people out of cycles of poverty. Yet in the past 30 years we've seen home ownership dwindle as council housing stocks deplete and more of us are caught in insecure tenancies. And it's not just London - there isn't a single major city in the world today not suffering from an affordable housing crisis. Why does this matter - and what can be done? Drawing on his own history of housing insecurity and his professional career as a planning barrister, Hashi Mohamed examines the myriad aspects of housing - from Right-to-Buy to Grenfell, slums and evictions to the Bank of Mum and Dad. A Home of One's Own is a deeply personal study of the crisis confronting global metropoles - and an exploration of the ways we can remove barriers, improve equality and create cities where more people have a place to call their own.Trade ReviewBeautifully written ... having a home is a central aspect of people's lives and a cornerstone of trust in society and its institutions -- Anne Minton * FT *Extremely relevant ... a real joy of a book * Tortoise Media *A call to action - and an important one * The Crack *[Hashi Mohamed's] second book, the slim polemic A Home of One's Own, details how his experience in insecure housing has informed his career in planning law, and how the housing crisis continues to distort the lives of people in the UK and around the world who have no access to a safe and permanent home in which to live * TANK *A powerful manifesto ... Hashi Mohamed articulates the anxieties, fears, and misdemeanours challenging contemporary British communities, powerfully critiquing systemic cycles in the housing market whilst empathetically defending the right for everybody to have, and feel, at home. * Buzz Magazine *Fascinating ... tying together the personal and the professional added immeasurable value to [A Home of One's Own] * Reaction *Short, precise, detailed and necessary * Bookmunch *Recommended by Pages of Hackney * : *PRAISE FOR HASHI MOHAMED'S PEOPLE LIKE US: * - *Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country. Beautifully written, People Like Us makes a deeply personal case for a world in which anybody can reach success, but doesn't have to leave a part of themselves behind to achieve it. -- Rt Hon David Lammy MPHe is an unconventional figure, and a key strength of his book is his refreshing willingness to address controversial issues with candour * Sunday Times *A vital work of courage and hope, by a truly remarkable individual. -- Philippe SandsMohamed's is an impressive tale, but he turns it into something much larger and far more resonant in his finely written memoir ... a rather ambitious and far-ranging attempt to rethink the whole stalled project of social mobility. A careful and affecting study of personal struggle, social mobility and international migration that brings a fresh and well-informed voice to the debate. * Observer *This rags-to-riches tale is related with humility and humour * The Times *I found myself nodding in agreement with every word of People Like Us. Hashi Mohamed has written a moving, shocking and clear-eyed account of the increasingly rare phenomenon of social mobility. Using his own extraordinary story as a spine he has written an analysis, how-to-guide and polemic on getting on and up in Britain today. -- Grayson PerryA brilliant book that should be read and celebrated at any time, but especially now -- Elif Shafak * New Statesman *

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Book SynopsisThe inside story of London''s housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground ControlLondon is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological war, housing is no longer considered a public good. Instead, only market solutions are considered - and these respond to the needs of global capital, rather than the needs of ordinary people. In politically uncertain times, the housing crisis has become a key driver creating and fuelling the inequalities of a divided nation. Anna Minton cuts through the complexities, jargon and spin to give a clear-sighted account of how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it.Trade ReviewEssential reading .... As attempts to address the crisis are still inadequate - indeed, some government policies are making it worse - and as it shows little sign of improving in the near future, the facts of this human catastrophe can't be stated too much or too strongly. The first achievement of Anna Minton's book Big Capital is to do just that -- Rowan Moore * Observer *Timely and relevant ... I can't recommend it enough -- Josie LongAnna Minton goes digging into the housing crisis in London and beyond. She gives us an account that indicates the crisis was made through decisions and wilful distortions ... reads like a sort of murder mystery, fully exposed -- Saskia Sassen * author of Expulsions *Diligent and determined ... Eye-opening ... Minton builds a powerful case ... A call to imagine what is politically possible -- Richard Godwin * Evening Standard *Fierce, incisive, important. Anyone who lives or works in a building should read this book -- Will SelfA studied, sustained attack on a market that has been mishandled by successive governments for 40 years, not because politicians have been unable to remedy it but because it has been expedient not to. It makes for painful - yet compelling - reading -- Nathan Brooker * Financial Times *Powerfully written ... It's hard not to come away with a fresh sense of outrage -- Matthew Partridge * Moneyweek *Cutting through the jargon and spin [Minton] argues that housing is a human right, not purely a financial asset, and offers clear-sighted solutions -- Antonia Charlesworth * Big Issue *Big Capital adds to what must be a commitment to change. It lays out clearly that the struggle for space will be at the top of the agenda within large cities -- Lisa Mckenzie, Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking and compelling book shows in fine detail the life struggles of those who live on a public housing estate in Dublin. Combining long-term research into residents' lived experience with critical realist theory, it provides a completely fresh perspective on public housing in Ireland and arguably, beyond.Table of Contents1. Introduction PART I: Ethography 2. Should I Stay or Should I Go? 3. Work Ethic 1 4. Work Ethic 2 5. The Food Chain 6. Means Ends 7. What Goes Around Comes Around 8. Fragile Beings 9. The Word PART II: Critical Realism and Public Housing 10. From Manifest Phenomena to Generative Structures 11. Class as The Production of Scarcity: Wage, Price, Debt, Food 12. Women and the Affective Domain of the Bridgetown Estate 13. Class Geography: Part of No Part

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Book SynopsisLiverpool 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.Trade Review‘This is a well-conceived and executed addition to the scholarship of social conditions in Liverpool and deserves a wide readership.’ Nick Foggo, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire ‘This volume, written and formatted in an accessible style, and well and appropriately illustrated, is part of the current national revival in interest in workers’ housing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. […] The volume deftly balances social and political details within a broader context, whilst demonstrating that this is a thoroughly researched piece of work.’ Mike Nevell, Vernacular Architecture

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Book SynopsisVillage Housing examines frameworks and projects that address the needs of residents and communities in rural settlements in the UK and overseas.

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Book SynopsisIn Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. Today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. The authors look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

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Book SynopsisFor fans of Humans Of New York and The Pursuit of Happyness.'A big-hearted and world-shaking idea' - Nick Cave 'Turn a common, everyday act into something potentially transformative.' - Michael Sheen'Moving and inspiring' - Johann Hari'Small acts of love can make a big impact.' - Morgan Freeman When you're on the fringes of society, being recognised can mean everything.In 2015, while working at a London hair salon, Joshua Coombes took to the streets with his scissors to build relationships with people sleeping rough in the capital, and began posting transformative images on social media to amplify their voices. These stories resonated and thousands of people got involved in their own way. From this, #DoSomethingForNothing was born - a movement that encourages people to contribute their skills and time to those who need it. This book explores themes of love, acceptance, shame and perseverance, while inviting us to see ourselves in one another and challenge the negative stigmas surrounding homelessness. Through the simple act of a haircut, Joshua takes you on a journey into the lives of people experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world.Featuring before-and-after photographs, street art and stories, this book is an inspiring and uplifting account of one man's experiences with people who have more in common with all of us than you might imagine. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to organisations dedicated to assisting unsheltered people, as well as supporting future not-for-profit art projects.Trade Review'A simple, big-hearted and world-shaking idea.' - Nick Cave, Singer Songwriter'Joshua's stories show the power that empathy and compassion can have to turn a common, everyday act into something potentially transformative.' - Michael Sheen'Hope, optimism, kind curiosity, and real human connection. This book will make you want to do something, just because you can.' - Emma Gannon, Author of the Multi-Hyphen Method 'This is a moving and inspiring book about how we can be better people' - Johann Hari, Author of Lost Connections and Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs'Coombes believes that small acts of love can make a big impact.' - Morgan Freeman

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Book SynopsisThe perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts'' collection, discover Orwell''s personal account of life on the streets beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard FaireyTo be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tramped the streets, often passing time with ''screevers'' or street artists, drunks and other hobos. At night, he stood in line for a bed in a ''spike'' or doss house, where a cup of sugary tea, a hunk of stale bread and a blanket were the only sustenance and comfort on offer.First published in 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell''s haunting account of the streets and those who have no choice but to live on them.''A man who looked at his world with wonder and wrote down exactly what he saw, in admirable prose'' John MortimerCOMPLETE THE TRIO WITH SHEPARD FAIREY''S NEW-LOOK 1984 AND ANIMAL FARM.Trade ReviewHe saw through everything... Many have tried to imitate his particular kind of clarity without anything like his moral authority -- Peter Ackroyd * The Times *A man who looked at his world with wonder and wrote down exactly what he saw, in admirable prose -- John Mortimer

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Book SynopsisIntegration is now a key expectation within the delivery of health and social care services in the UK and internationally. However, it still remains difficult to achieve and sustain in practice. Based on learning from successful, and unsuccessful, integrated care initiatives, this book is an invaluable guide for those responsible for leading, managing and delivering integrated care across health, social care and housing. Written by an experienced team of researchers who have studied, led and supported integrated care for many years Integrated Care in Practice draws on latest evidence, innovative practice and helpful theory. It provides insights into the common pitfalls that such initiatives can encounter and demonstrates positive approaches to anticipating and responding to such challenges. Throughout, real-case examples are provided, and concepts and models are connected with the realities of day-to-day life for those working within these services.Integrated care is a goal to aspire to - this book helps to explain how we can turn this goal into practical action and positive outcomes.Trade ReviewThere is a strong focus on context and culture, and on creating the conditions for change in a complex operating environment. Readers are encouraged to reflect on the why and the how of integrated care through a series of case studies drawn from all levels of the system. These case studies illustrate how an integrated care approach adds value and some give a flavour of the anticipated gains. Overall, an easy read and a useful overview for managers and practitioners from all sectors who want to make integrated care a reality. -- Dr Anne Hendry, Clinical Lead for Integrated Care and Senior Fellow, International Foundation for Integrated CareThe question of how we bring about the integration of health and social care is one that has vexed policy makers and practitioners for many decades. But now, more than ever, with decreasing budgets and rising demand, we need to overcome the many barriers that stand in the way of better and more integrated care and support. Integrated Care in Action is a timely book that provides practical, evidence-based guidance on how to design, plan and deliver integrated care, whether at the whole-systems level or within specific services. Unlike other recent publications of this kind, which are often overly focused on the NHS as the sole owner of the problem of how to integrate care, this book recognises the vital role played by social care, mental health and the wider community based organisations. As you would expect from authors who understand the importance of service user engagement and co-production, they also write at length about the need for service user and carers to be genuine partners in creating more integrated services. This book will stand the test of time. -- Ewan King, Director of Business Development and Delivery, Social Care Institute for ExcellenceIntegration has become one of the central themes of public service reform. This accessible and thoroughly evidenced guide provides informative and evidence-based insights into the challenges and opportunities of integration. It draws on relevant case studies and provides practical guidance that can be directly applied, not only in health and social care, but also in the field of housing and support. The provision of integrated care and the development of a shared taxonomy in these three areas is critical to the delivery of needs led and outcome focused services. This book is required reading for those tasked with making successful integration a reality. -- Steve Appleton, Managing Director, Contact Consulting - a health, housing and social care consultancyWorking together is powerful and liberating especially when the impact on the people receiving the service and those involved in designing and delivering it are able to recognise the opportunities and improvements gained from doing things differently. This book helps to make it happen. -- Anne Thomas, Executive Director, Linc - Cymru Housing Association LtdDr Robin Miller, Hilary Brown and Catherine Mangan have produced an easily readable, engaging text which feels immediately useful and realistic for any health and social care setting. They invite the reader to think about their own current state and, through well placed questions, invite the reader to imagine an integrated future. -- Aotearoa New Zealand Social WorkTable of ContentsPreface. Key Terms. Chapter 1: Integrated Care: An Introduction. Chapter 2: Establishing Purpose and Need. Chapter 3: Engaging and Involving Individuals and Communities. Chapter 4: Leading Self and Others. Chapter 5: Managing Change - Processes and People. Chapter 6: Evaluating and Reviewing Integration. Chapter 7: Working with Service Users and Carers. Chapter 8: Working with Staff. Chapter 9: Working with Processes and Systems. Chapter 10: Sustaining and Improving. Resources. Index.

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Book SynopsisUsing the case study of a Seattle school, this text describes a working model for the education of homeless children in America's public schools.

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Book Synopsis'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorYou can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business.When he was a struggling writer in his twenties, George Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this early memoir, he recounts shocking experiences working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day's worth of bread and wine, sleeping in bug-infested bunks, trading survival skills and cigarette butts with fellow tramps, and trudging between London's workhouse spikes for a few hours' sleep and tea-and-two-slices. With sensitivity and compassion, Orwell exposed the hardships of poverty and gave readers an unprecedented look at life lived on the fringes of society. His vivid account is an enduring call to support the world's most vulnerable people and exemplifies his belief that 'The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.' The Authoritative Text. With a new introduction by Kerry Hudson.*The jacket of this stunning hardback edition features period artwork by Elizabeth Friedlander, one of Europe's pre-eminent 20th-century graphic designers. Look out for complementjary editions of Orwell's essential works Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.*Trade ReviewAn extraordinary and curious book: beautifully phrased, meticulous, honest and funny. George Orwell’s 1933 memoir, and a study of poverty, is a book both rooted in its era and able to transcend it... a book that has inspired countless people to try to understand the personal and political issues at the heart of homelessness – and continues to do so today. -- Hannah PriceThe white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty'Orwell was the great moral force of his age * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisA landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life. In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association, Louis Wirth, argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological research. Now, seventy-five years later, the sociology of housing has still not developed as a distinct subfield, leaving efforts to understand housing's place in society to other disciplines, such as economics and urban planning. With this volume, the editors and contributors solidify the importance of housing studies within the discipline of sociology by tackling topics like racial segregation, housing instability, the supply of affordable housing, and the process of eviction. In doing so, they showcase the very best traditions of sociology: they draw on diverse methodologies, present unique field sites and data sources, and foreground a range of theoretical approaches to elucidate the relationships between contemporary housing, public policy, and key social outcomes. The STrade Review“In The Sociology of Housing, McCabe and Rosen push housing research from the background to the foreground of so many core sociological questions about how we structure society and interact with one another. This volume offers an expert syllabus on housing for academics, students, and practitioners. There is no book like it, and it will stand as the reference tool for decades to come.” -- Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University“The Sociology of Housing addresses an important topic: how housing is created and, in turn, influences and shapes our lives. Much has been written about the economics and financing of housing. But the multifaceted social influences of housing on society have long been overlooked. With contributions from leading scholars, this volume will make an important contribution to our understanding of how housing is interwoven into our lives.” -- Lance Freeman, James W. Effron University Professor of City and Regional Planning & Sociology, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction. How Homes Shape Our Social Lives Brian J. McCabe, Georgetown University; Eva Rosen, Georgetown University Part I: Mechanisms of Housing Inequality 1. Housing as Capital: US Policy, Homeownership, and the Racial Wealth Gap Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, University of Albany 2. Latino Homeownership: Opportunities and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century Allen Hyde, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary J. Fischer, University of Connecticut 3. Latinos’ Housing Inequality: Local Historical Context and the Relational Formation of Segregation María G. Rendón, University of California, Irvine; Deyanira Nevárez Martínez, Michigan State University; Maya Parvati Kulkarni, University of California, Irvine 4. The Renaissance Comes to the Projects: Public Housing Policy, Race, and Urban Redevelopment in Baltimore Peter Rosenblatt, Loyola University Chicago 5. Unsettling Native Land: Indigenous Perspectives on Housing Jennifer Darrah-Okike, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Lorinda Riley, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Philip M. E. Garboden, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Nathalie Rita, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 6. Affordable Housing Is Public Health: How Landlords Struggle to Contain America’s Lead Poisoning Crisis Matthew H. McLeskey, SUNY Oswego 7. Audit Studies of Housing Discrimination: Established, Emerging, and Future Research S. Michael Gaddis, University of California, Los Angeles; Nicholas V. DiRago, University of California, Los Angeles Part II: Housing Insecurity and Instability 8. Centering the Institutional Life of Eviction Kyle Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael C. Lens, University of California, Los Angeles 9. Manufactured Housing in the US: A Critical Affordable Housing Infrastructure Esther Sullivan, University of Colorado, Denver 10. Shared Housing and Housing Instability Hope Harvey, University of Kentucky; Kristin L. Perkins, Georgetown University 11. Informal Housing in the US: Variation and Inequality among Squatters in Detroit Claire Herbert, University of Oregon 12. Housing Deprivation: Homelessness and the Reproduction of Poverty Chris Herring, Harvard University Part III: Housing Markets and Housing Supply 13. Housing Supply as a Social Process Joe LaBriola, Brown University 14. Housing Market Intermediaries Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, University of New Mexico; Robin Bartram, Tulane University; Max Besbris, University of Wisconsin–Madison 15. Housing in the Context of Neighborhood Decline Sharon Cornelissen, Harvard University; Christine Jang-Trettien, Princeton University 16. Learning from Short-Term Rentals’ “Disruptions” Krista E. Paulsen, Boise State University 17. Moving Beyond “Good Landlord, Bad Landlord”: A Theoretical Investigation of Exploitation in Housing Philip M. E. Garboden, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 18. How We Pay to House Each Other Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego Part IV: Housing, Racial Segregation, and Inequality 19. The Future of Segregation Studies: Questions, Challenges, and Opportunities Jacob William Faber, New York University 20. Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Residential Mobility among Housing Choice Voucher Holders Erin Carll, University of Washington; Hannah Lee, University of Washington; Chris Hess, Kennesaw State University; Kyle Crowder, University of Washington 21. All in the Family: Social Connections and the Cycle of Segregation Maximilian Cuddy, University of Illinois, Chicago; Amy Spring, Georgia State University; Maria Krysan, University of Illinois, Chicago; Kyle Crowder, University of Washington 22. Policing, Property, and the Production of Racial Segregation Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois, Chicago 23. Criminal Justice Contact and Housing Inequality Brielle Bryan, Rice University; Temi Alao, University of Florida 24. The Housing Divide in the Global South Marco Garrido, University of Chicago Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.Trade Review“Punishing the Poor is an incisive and unflinching indictment of neoliberal state restructuring and poverty (mis)management. It brilliantly exposes structural and symbolic consonances between ‘workfare’ and ‘prisonfare,’ and between emergent, transnational policy orthodoxies in social and penal policy. Loïc Wacquant delivers a trenchant, radical, and entirely compelling analysis.”—Jamie Peck, author of Workfare States“This masterful treatment of contemporary punishment policies relocates the entire field within the political sweep of the twentieth-century ascendance of economic neoliberalism and the evisceration of the welfare state. Loïc Wacquant skillfully weds materialist and symbolic approaches in the best tradition of Marx and radical criminology, on the one hand, and Durkheim and Bourdieu, on the other. This provocative book is the counter-manifesto to neoliberal penality, a must-read for all students of criminal justice and citizenship.”—Bernard E. Harcourt, author of Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age“This powerful book shows that America’s harsh penal policies are of a piece with our harsh social policies and that both can be understood as a symbolic and material apparatus to control the marginal populations created by neoliberal globalization. A tour de force!”—Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare“Punishing the Poor makes a novel and important contribution to welfare state scholarship, along with a host of disciplines and professions concerned with the plight of the urban poor. It should be read carefully and intentionally in graduate courses, in advanced undergraduate seminars, and among scholarly and professional circles alike.” -- Rueben Miller * Journal of Poverty *“An intellectual tour de force of how the American state’s interaction with citizens of colour is non-random and, for many African Americans, harmful.” -- Desmond King * British Journal of Criminology *“The book is often a good read. Wacquant is eclectic and smart. His writing is always lively. His argument is a very interesting one. . . . [Waquant] is brilliant and fascinating. His leaps of metaphor and his daring allusions are a continuous and often delightful spectacle. His passion ad commitment are laudable.” -- Andrew Abbott * American Journal of Sociology *“[T]he story Wacquant tells is deeply disturbing. . . . Punishing the Poor retains a certain power, reminding us of the hypermodern yet archaic world of prisons still in our midst.” -- Kim Phillips-Fein * Bookforum *“Amid a burgeoning field of both scholarly analysis and policy prescription, few writers can match the eloquence and passion with which Loïc Wacquant has identified, characterized and criticized the rise and rise of punishment. Combining a capacious and imaginative intellectual range with an unusual rhetorical gift, he has made a tremendous contribution to our awareness of these developments and of their implications, particularly for the poor and for other socially marginal groups. . . . [Punishing the Poor is] one of the most eloquent, and disturbing, assessments of the phenomenon of penal excess in the USA, and one which his communicative skills have made accessible to a wide audience. This in itself counts as a substantial contribution to an intellectually intriguing, politically pressing, and ethically troubling field.” -- Nicola Lacey * British Journal of Sociology *“I wish I could write like Loïc Wacquant. Not only in terms of the volume of published material, but also in terms of the quality of that rich output: how many articles and books in a relatively short period of time and on a variety of topics? Wacquant has made a massive contribution to social science, and has extremely rare qualities indeed. Passion and the power of persuasion drive his text repeatedly – sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph of layered arguments on the materialist anatomies of post-Fordist society, its urban forms, and contradictions.” -- Martin Jones * Criminology and Criminal Justice *“Loïc Wacquant is probably the most theoretically provocative commentator writing on urban marginality today. Punishing the Poor further solidifies that reputation. . . . Punishing the Poor is an important book. It should be read—and debated.” -- Sanford F. Schram * Social Service Review *“Loïc Wacquant’s book – part of a trilogy exploring changing social and political formations in the United States and beyond – presents a powerful and cogent analysis of how social insecurity is produced and governed. Its core argument addresses the changing state formations through which the poor are being managed, highlighting the double movement towards ‘prisonfare’ and ‘workfare.’ He traces the rise of the penal state in the United States, but argues that this needs to be seen as interwoven with the transformation of welfare into workfare. For me, this is a powerful and important claim, not least because penality and welfare are typically studied by different groups of people. Grasping how the state’s different apparatuses are being reformed typically falls outside conventional disciplinary perspectives. I am grateful for Wacquant’s intellectual insistence on, and rich empirical demonstration of, the importance of this way of thinking.” -- John Clarke * Social Forces *“Urgent and timely, absorbing and alarming, Punishing the Poor should warn us that Britain's increasing dependence on our penal state and the accelerating erosion of our social state are one and the same thing, and may prove a disaster.” -- Louise Hardwick * Times Higher Education *“Wacquant weaves together the narratives of American peculiarity and the global trends of neo-liberalism, and the amount of empirical detail demands that his arguments be taken seriously. His claim that ‘poor relief ’ has taken on a new meaning, relief not to the poor, but from the poor, ‘disappearing’ them from shrinking welfare rolls to expanding carceral dungeons, sums up the thesis of this timely and compelling book.” -- Barbara Hudson * British Journal of Criminology *“Wacquant’s comprehensive analysis proves, once again, not only that punishment is about more than crime, but also that criminology is too important to be left to criminologists. . . . Any attempt to build a strategy towards a political consensus for reducing needless punishment would be immensely strengthened by a careful reading of Wacquant’s work.” -- David Nelken * Criminology and Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsTables and Figures ix Prologue: America as Living Laboratory for the Neoliberal Future xi 1. Social Insecurity and the Punitive Upsurge 1 Part I: Poverty of the Social State 2. The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era 41 3. Welfare "Reform" as Poor Discipline and Statecraft 76 Part II: Grandeur of the Penal State 4. The Great Confinement of the Fin de Siècle 113 5. The Coming of Carceral "Big Government" 151 Part III. 6. The Prison as Surrogate Ghetto: Encaging the Black Subproletarians 195 7. Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down Sex Offenders 209 Part IV: European Declinations 8. The Scholarly Myths of the New Law-and-Order Reason 243 9. Carceral Aberration Comes to French 270 Theoretical Coda: A Sketch of the Neoliberal State 287 Acknowledgments 315 Endnotes 319 Index 367

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Book SynopsisPlanning is a complex field, in which varied perspectives, politics, and potential actions are constantly negotiated. This is even more true in a changing world, in which climate change, war, inequalities, and injustices persist. Instead of proposing a single, homogenized response to key contemporary challenges, this book keeps apparent the divergent voices of people with varied levels and types of experience within the field of Planning. The key themes explored span learning, feeling, creating and acting: how social learning can and should be approached in planning; how important (dis)comfort can be in planning; what the role of arts and science can and should be in this field; and how closely academic planning research should be engaged in âœactivismâ (and what that can mean). The book serves as an empowering tool for students, practitioners, academics, and lecturers in the field of planning to find distinct voices to engage with these pressing debates and question assumptions. It delves into ongoing conversations that these actors will inevitably be grappling with via an unusual format that allows dissonance to shine through. The book includes in-depth conversations per topic, key take-aways for different audiences, further reading materials, and suggestions for continued conversations and research.

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Book SynopsisDr Josh Ryan-Collins is senior economist at the New Economics Foundation, where he has been based since 2006. He leads a research programme at NEF focusing on monetary and financial reform and the economics of land and housing and has published widely across these areas. Josh is the lead author of Where Does Money Come From?, a comprehensive guide to the workings of the modern monetary system, which is used as a textbook to teach banking and finance courses at universities in the UK and United States. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton and is visiting research fellow at Southampton Business School and City University's Political Economy Research Centre in London.Toby Lloyd is head of housing development at Shelter, the UK's largest housing charity, where he was previously head of policy. He has worked on housing issues across the public, private and voluntary sectors for over twelve years, advising ministers, mayors, businesses and communities. His proposal for a new Garden City won the runner-up award in the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014.Laurie Macfarlane is an economist at the New Economics Foundation, working on land and financial reform issues. He was previously head of economic analysis at the Water Industry Commission for Scotland and also spent one year working in the markets and economics division at Ofwat. Laurie has written on land and housing reform for the progressive Scottish think tank Common Weal. He has a first class degree in economics from the University of Strathclyde.The New Economics Foundation is the only people-powered think tank. It works to build a new economy where people really take control.Trade ReviewA very welcome analysis.' * Greenhouse think tank *This is an admirable book. It provides a powerful critique of the UK’s failed policies towards land and housing and it sets out an ambitious but credible set of alternatives which merit serious debate.' * LSE Review of Books *The book that did the most to alter my perception of the world. * Bloomberg - Must-reads of 2017 *A lucid exposition of the dysfunctional British housing market. * Financial Times - Best Books of 2017 *Extremely useful * Institute of Place Management - Best Books of 2017 *The most important book I read this year. * Times Higher Education - Best Books of 2017 *Housing and land play a central role in modern economies , but most mainstream economic theory simply ignores land's special character - with grave consequences for its ability to explain the real world. By contrast, this important book analyses the subject with excellent clarity. Read it and you will understand the crucial underlying drivers of rising debt, increasing inequality and financial crises. * Adair Turner, chairman of the Institute of New Economic Thinking *A lucid and convincing explanation of why a free-market approach to the land problem makes little sense; why the state needs to intervene; and of the wide range of policy options available. Economics is evolving and this crucial book is a key part of its transformation. * Danny Dorling, author of All That Is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It *Land policy is the missing issue in any discussion on planning, development and the property market. This book is therefore long overdue. It returns land to its central role in both economic theory and in built environment discourses. * Duncan Bowie, author of Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis *This book takes a fresh and comprehensive look at the problems created by a failure to consider the role of land in the economy of the UK. It proposes a wide range of solutions which policymakers should consider. * Kate Barker, author of the Barker Review of UK Housing Supply *This excellent book on the economic role of land is both thorough and comprehensive. I am convinced that it will quickly become an important reference for the general public and for economists, and hopefully also for policymakers. * Michael Kumhof, senior research advisor, Bank of England *A comprehensive survey of the role of land in the economy and its neglect in economics, as well as a profile of how ownership of this essential requirement for life has become unattainable for the majority of young Britons, thanks to the march of finance and the compliance of Parliament. * Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics *Table of ContentsForeword by John Muellbauer 1. Introduction 2. Land Ownership and Property 3. The Missing Factor: Land in Production and Distribution 4. Land for Housing: Land Economics in the Modern Era 5. The Financialisation of Land and Housing 6. Land, Wealth and Inequality 7. Putting Land Back into Economics and Policy

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Book SynopsisThe complex and self-serving nexus behind the UK's housing crisis is laid bare in this passionate book from Bob Colenutt. Investigating the network of landowners, house-builders, financial backers and politicians, he reveals how we have been forced to accept the cycle of low supply and high prices, and proposes solutions to the housing emergency.Trade Review“The housing crisis stems from a new and unholy alliance of financial, developer and land-owning interests which this timely book uncovers and promises to fix as a central part of fixing the economy and society.” Michael Edwards, University College LondonTable of ContentsThe finance-housebuilding complex The housing shortage The housebuilding business Financing housing investment The property lobby Shaping national housing and planning policy The 2008 financial crash continues The housebuilders and affordable housing How the social and affordable housing sectors got swallowed Local case studies Unblocking the impasse

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Book SynopsisExperts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year in this comprehensive volume. Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this volume addresses current issues and critical debates throughout the international social policy field.Table of ContentsSocial Policy in the Shadow of the Pandemic Andy Jolly, Ruggero Cefalo and Marco Pomati Part 1: Policy Groups 1. Climate Justice, Social Policy and the Transition to Net Zero in the UK – Carolyn Snell, Matthew Scott, Kirsten Jenkins, Kelli Kennedy, Harriet Thomson, Komali Yenneti, Helen Stockton and Ian Gough 2. Localising Employment Policy: Opportunities and Challenges – Anne Green, Ceri Hughes, Paul Sissons and Abigail Taylor 3. Getting In, Being Heard and Influencing Change: The Labours of Policy Engagement in Employment and Social Security Research – Hayley Bennett and Katy Jones 4. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on UK Housing Policy: How Do We Rebuild the Foundations of the ‘Wobbly Pillar’? – Vikki McCall, Steve Rolfe, Peter Matthews, Andrew Wallace, Grace Manyika, Steve Iafrati, Colin Clarke and Moira Munro Part 2: Wider Developments in Social Policy 5. The Faceless Researcher: The Implications of Carrying Out Research Using Digital Methods During a Global Pandemic – Emma Partlow 6. Caught Between the Local and the (Trans)national: A Street-Level Analysis of EU Migrants’ Access to Social Benefits in German Job Centres – Nora Ratzmann 7. Critical Perspectives on Social Work and Social Policy Practice With Vulnerable Migrants in an Era of Emergencies – Erick da Luz Scherf 8. The Autonomy Voucher for the Elderly and People With Disabilities in the Context of Local Welfare Transformation: Potentials and Limits of Lombardy Region’s Policy – Franca Maino, Ilaria Madama and Federico Bruno 9. The Impact of the Pandemic Crisis on Territorial Inequalities: The Right(s) to Healthcare in Italy – Gaia Matilde Ripamonti 10. When Activation Policies Deactivate Job Seekers: Inconsistencies in French Integration Policy – Adrien Lusinchi

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Book SynopsisWritten by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more. -- .

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Book SynopsisOver the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. If trends continue, we should expect to see more people living alone, later-in-life marriages, fewer (and smaller) new families, and a majority-minority population that skews older and older. Americans' daily life and preferences have also changed, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But housing today largely looks the same as it did in 1950.In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why the government-subsidized suburbs full of single-family houses are bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their on paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current crisis in American housing and a radical re-imagining of the possibilities of housing.

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Book SynopsisIn Constructing Change, Ezgi B. Unsal provides a political economy of electricity and housing provision in Turkey. By using the case studies of electricity and housing in Turkey, the book explores how social provision is increasingly commodified across the globe as a defining feature of financialisation. Distinguishing this trend from macroeconomic definitions of financialisation, the book offers a contextual narrative of economic change in Turkey, with undetermined macroeconomic outcomes. It contributes to the literature on the financialisation of social provision and the political economy of Turkey, by confirming the increasing influence of finance on social provision sectors, making them prone to volatility while contributing to their growth at the same time.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 What Is This Book about? General Introduction and Methodology 1 Objectives and Contribution 2 Methodology and the Structure of Analysis  2.1  Systematic Dialectics and Hegelian Heritage  2.2  Marx’s Materialism and the Incorporation of Empirical Material into Theory  2.3  Essence and the Process of Change  2.4  Levels of Abstraction: Tendencies and Countertendencies  2.5  The Value of Labour Power  2.6  The Systems of Provision (sop) Approach to Social Reproduction 3 Conclusion2 A Literature Survey on Financialisation 1 Introduction 2 Financialisation as an Object of Study: The Rise of Finance and Its Impacts on the Economy  2.1  Cambridge Theories of Distribution  2.2  How Do the Cambridge Theories of Distribution Relate to Financialisation?  2.3  Empirical Analyses on Firm-level: Decreasing Real Investment, Slowing Down of Accumulation  2.4  Empirical Analysis on Aggregate Level: The Impacts of Worsening Income Distribution, Determination of Different Accumulation Regimes  2.5  Emphasis upon Increasing Levels of Debt and Securitisation  2.6  Asset Price Inflation Approach and ‘Forced’ Indebtedness  2.7  Conclusion 3 Financialisation as a Reference Point for Periodisation  3.1  Annales School and Recurrent Financialisation  3.2  Financialisation as Coupon Pool: Social Accountancy and Cultural Economy Approach  3.3  Finance-led Accumulation Regime as an Alternative to Fordist Regime: French Regulation School  3.4  Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) Approach  3.5  Tri-partite Class Regime and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Duménil and Lévy  3.6  Financial Expropriation Approach: Lapavitsas and Dos Santos  3.7  The Increasing Presence of Interest-bearing Capital 4 Conclusion3 Financialisation in Developing and Emerging Economies 1 Introduction 2 Historical Development of Financialisation in Developing Countries  2.1  Reserve Accumulation Strategy and the Narrowing Down of the Policy Scope  2.2  Crowding-out of Investment and Changes in Firm and Institutional Behaviour 3 Conclusion4 The Political Economy of Turkey Since 1980  Towards Differentiated Global Integration 1 Introduction 2 1980s and 1990s: Capital Account Liberalisation, Export Boom and Public Indebtedness 3 Political Economy of Transition: The Differentiated Impacts of the 2001 Crisis 4 After 2001: Restructuring of the Banking Sector 5 After 2001: Household Indebtedness 6 After 2001: Capital Restructuring? 7 Conclusion5 The Political Economy of Electricity Provision in Turkey 1 Introduction 2 Privatisation of Electricity Provision: Rhetoric and Experiences around the World  2.1  Scholarship on Privatisation of Electricity Provision: How and What to Regulate? 3 Energy Sector Outlook in Turkey 4 Historical Background and Institutional Framework for Electricity Provision in Turkey  4.1  Privatisation Process i: Policy Design and Price Regulation  4.2  Privatisation Process ii: Addressing Losses and Theft and Other Problems in Implementation 5 The Case of Hydroelectric Power Plants (HEBB s) in Turkey: How They Are Built and Financed  5.1  Ilisu Dam: A HEBB Project  5.2  Coruh Development Plan 6 What Role to the Finance?  6.1  Firm Financing: An Investigation of Corporate Balance Sheets in the Electricity Industry 7 Conclusion6 The Political Economy of Housing Provision in Turkey 1 Introduction 2 Production Matters in a Comparative Context: Housing Provision in Britain 3 Production upon Landed Property: Marx’s Agricultural Rent Theory  3.1  Rent in Urban Settings 4 The Dynamics of Housing Production in Turkey: A Construction Boom Facilitated through State Institutions  4.1  A History of Housing Provision in Turkey within the Context of Urbanisation  4.2  The Rise of a State Institution in the Transition towards Market-based Provision: toki (Housing Development Administration) 5 An Empirical Investigation of the Construction Sector Firms’ Financial Statements 6 The Dynamics of Housing Consumption in Turkey  6.1  Housing Consumption: Who Consumes How Much? 7 Conclusion7 Conclusion 1 Introduction 2 Main Findings and Contribution 3 Further Issues and Concluding RemarksBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is framed as a place of security and belonging, while its loss defines what it means to be homeless. On the basis of this binary, a whole industry of policy interventions, knowledge production, and organizing fails to provide solutions to homelessness but perpetuates violent and precarious forms of inhabitation. Drawing on his research and activism around housing in Europe, Lancione attends to the interlocking crises of home and homelessness by recentering the political charge of precarious dwelling. It is there, if often in unannounced ways, that a profound struggle for a differential kind of homing signals multiple possibilities to transcend the violences of home/homelessness. In advancing a new approach to work with the politics ofTrade Review“Michele Lancione has given us a tremendous gift with this pathbreaking and brilliant book. His arguments will be of immense meaning for social movements concerned with housing justice, many of which are grappling with regimes of property and the affective politics of home. The study of housing and homelessness will not be the same.” -- Ananya Roy, author of * Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development *“By mobilizing a new methodological, conceptual, and political grammar in which home and homelessness are not opposite but coherent expressions of a wider function of patriarchal and racialized processes of expulsions and extractions, this book offers a whole new perspective to imagine housing futures toward housing justice in which ‘housing precarity’ is not only a site for deprivation and relegation or a ‘problem to be fixed’ but can also perform a new politics of inhabitation.” -- Raquel Rolnik, author of * Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Problem of Lessness 1 Part I 1. The Subject at Home 25 2. Expulsion and Extraction 43 Part II 3. Italian Ritornellos 69 4. A Local Violence 99 5. A Global Culture 131 Part III 6. The Micropolitics of Housing Precarity 173 7. Deinstitute, Reinstitute, Institute 195 Conclusion. Beyond Inhabitation 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 279

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Book SynopsisThe original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century, introducing the latest developments in European modernist housing to an American audience. It is also a manifesto: America needs to draw on Europe’s example to solve its housing crisis. Only when housing is transformed into a planned, public amenity will it truly be modern. Modern Housing’s sharp message catalyzed an intense period of housing activism in the United States, resulting in the Housing Act of 1937, which Catherine Bauer coauthored. But these reforms never went far enough: so long as housing remained the subject of capitalist speculation, Bauer knew the housing problem would remain. In light of today’s affordable housing emergency, her prescriptions for how to achieve humane and dignified modern housing remain as instructive and urgent as ever.Trade Review"Modern Housing has special interest for Americans, not because of what we have done but because of what we have not done."—The New York Book Review (1934, R. L. Duffus)"It should not be thought that this book is intended only, or even mainly, for technicians; on the contrary, it is entirely suitable both in manner and matter for anyone interested in its subject."—The Spectator (1935)"Catherine Bauer’s Modern Housing shows how we lag behind Europe in good homes for all."—The Washington Post (1934, Theodore Hall) "In discussing Modern Housing, which deals largely with European achievements of the last fifteen years, it is difficult to exercise restraint and to avoid fulsome praise."—Lee M. Brooks, University of North Carolina (1935)"Planners, architects, and builders today should be equally interested in this book."—Daphne Spain, University of Virginia"Modern Housing has special interest for Americans, not because of what we have done but because of what we have not done."—The New York Book Review (1934, R. L. Duffus)"It should not be thought that this book is intended only, or even mainly, for technicians; on the contrary, it is entirely suitable both in manner and matter for anyone interested in its subject."—The Spectator (1935)"Catherine Bauer’s Modern Housing shows how we lag behind Europe in good homes for all."—The Washington Post (1934, Theodore Hall) "Almost a century later, the ideas in her book still burn. She draws her utopian image of a different America in so much detail that it begins to feel like a real destination. Republished at an opportune moment, her dispatch from another crisis provides context, and perhaps inspiration, for a movement whose like she desperately longed to see."—The New Yorker"The opening case for Bauer’s Modern Housing is both simpler and more elusive. Written by a relatively recent Vassar graduate in art history who would become a key protagonist in the development of U.S. housing policy, Modern Housing argues straightforwardly for the emulation, in the United States during the Depression, of European social democratic housing programs and their architecture"—Places Journal"Bauer's book now is as timely as it is welcome."—Daily Dose of Architecture Books "It’s a refreshing read, even today."—Municipal World Journal

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Book SynopsisThe paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century - why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation''s leading authorities provides the answer. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Robert Rank develops his unique perspective for understanding this puzzle. The approach is what he has defined over the years as structural vulnerability. Central to this new way of thinking is the distinction between those who lose out at the economic game versus why the game produces losers in the first place. Americans experiencing poverty tend to have certain characteristics placing them at a greater risk of impoverishment. Yet poverty results not from these factors, but rather from a lack of sufficient opportunities in society. In particular, the shortage of decent paying jobs and a strong safety net are paramount. Based upon this understanding, Rank goes on to detail a variety of strategies and programs to effectively alleviate poverty in the future. Implementing these policies has the added benefit of reinforcing several of the nation''s most important values and principles. The Poverty Paradox represents a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. It provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead.Trade ReviewMark Robert Rank's ambitious book, The Poverty Paradox, is said to be "a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. It provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead". * Craig R. Roach, New York Journal of Books *Mark Rank, one of America's great poverty scholars, has done it again. In crystal clear prose, The Poverty Paradox walks readers through what we know about poverty in the United States, forwards a framework to understand why it persists, and offers evidence-strategies for how we can confront it. It will offer fresh insights to new students, long-time experts, and policymakers alike. * H. Luke Shaefer, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan *After reading Rank, Christians might decide that their vested interests should be in structures that alleviate wealth as much as those that alleviate poverty. * Adam Vander Tuig, The Christian Century *Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsPart I: Overview Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defining, Measuring, and Counting Chapter 3: The Traditional Perspective Part II: The Structural Vulnerability Framework Chapter 4: Economic Vulnerability and the Role of Human Capital Chapter 5: Cumulative Inequality Chapter 6: Two Levels of Understanding Part III: The Broader Context Chapter 7: Building the Foundation Chapter 8: Policy Implications Chapter 9: Looking Back, Looking Ahead Notes

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Book SynopsisThoughts 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.Table of ContentsREFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX

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Book SynopsisBy the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for the indigent, poor farms in fact attracted wards that ranged from abused wives and the elderly to orphans, the disabled, and disaster victims. Most people arrived unable rather than unwilling to work, some because of physical problems, others due to a lack of skills or because a changing labor market had left them behind. Birk blends the personal stories of participants with institutional histories to reveal a loose-knit system that provided a measure of care to everyone without an overarching philosophy of reform or rehabilitation. In-depth and innovative, The Fundamental Institution offers an overdue portrait of rural social welfare in the UniTrade Review"Extends the work Birk did in her first book, Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest (2015) . Both books critically examine the institutions and policies that sought to serve vulnerable rural populations. . . . Taken together, this scholarship is essential for anyone interested in understanding how ideas about farming and family shaped the experiences of America's rural poor and marginalized people." --H-Net Reviews"This well-written and researched book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the role that the poor farm played in welfare strategies for rural Americans." --Kansas History"A well-argued book based on impressive research and organized in a set of well-constructed chapters. It is an impressive contribution to the history of American social welfare systems and to American rural life from 1870s to 1930." --Missouri Historical Review"Informative and thoroughly researched, The Fundamental Institution tells the largely unknown story of America’s poor farms. Megan Birk argues persuasively that white rural poverty was commonplace, and poor farms were an essential part of localized public welfare systems until the 1930s. A valuable study."--Molly Ladd-Taylor, author of Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 The Founding of Community Institutions 152 Populations and Conditions 463 Farming for the County 744 Poor Farm Women 1045 The Poor Farm and Mental Health Care 1306 Old Age and Poor Farm Residency 1547 Poor Farms and Health Care 1758 Crisis and Transition 198Epilogue 216Appendix 221Notes 223Bibliography 259Index 283

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening account of land and property ownership in Ireland.

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Book SynopsisThis 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. Four major themes form the basis of the volume:(1)  Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place.(2)  Global Governance and Anticipatory Leadership. (3) Innovation, Reform and Exemplars. (4) Urban Planning and Real Estate Transformations. Within these structural themes are a diverse range of ''Discourses'' addressing many of the big questions and driving forces that face us, together with a proposed methodology (Strategic Foresight) and an array of practical illustrations viewing what can be done today whether by organisations, individuals, cities or communities to positively shape a preferred future and manipulate us towards achieving it. It will be important reTable of ContentsPreface Exordium (Spirit of the Work). Humankind 2050: Built Environment Challenges. A personal reflection by Prof John RatcliffeTHEME ONE: Future Awareness and a New Sense of Place Discourse 1: 'Imagine Ahead - Plan Backwards': The Art and Science of Strategic ForesightDiscourse 2: The 'Big Questions': A Cosmos of UncertaintyDiscourse 3: The Premium of PlaceDiscourse 4: Cultural Heritage Futures Discourse 5: Post-pandemic: Disruptions, Aftershocks and OpportunitiesTHEME TWO: Global Governance and Anticipatory LeadershipDiscourse 6: Can the World Be Governed?Discourse 7: A New Sense of the Commons.Discourse 8: The Pantheon of Public-Private Partnership.Discourse 9: Anticipatory Leadership and Fostering Deliberative DemocracyDiscourse 10: China and the World: A Changing RelationshipTHEME THREE: Innovation, Reform and ExemplarsDiscourse 11: Whither Work and the Workplace?Discourse 12: Reconceptualising Higher Education Discourse 13: Enterprise and EntrepreneurshipDiscourse 14: Critical Infrastructure and Global MegaprojectsDiscourse 15: Health, Well-Being and HappinessTHEME FOUR: Urban Planning and Real Estate TransformationsDiscourse 16: Smart Cities and Smart Property MarketsDiscourse 17: The 'Great Land Question'Discourse 18: Transforming the Professions of the Built EnvironmentDiscourse 19: Values and ValuationIndex

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years. With a theory and practice approach to public health, this edition focuses more on population health, health protection and improvement, and inter-agency approaches to effective intervention in housing and health through evidence-based practice. It provides the ideal introduction to the area, covering policy and strategy in housing, housing and inequality, housing inclusion, and the public health agenda. It provides a renewed focus on research into evidence-based housing and health issues, which have become subjects of growing international interest in recent years. This edition includes more case studies, reflection, and a greater emphasis on wider living environments. It also includes major pieces of new legislation, most notably the Housing Act 2004 and the Housing and Planning Act 2016, as well as related regulations.Trade Review"The book is an easy read, but retains academic robustness. It covers a wide housing and health-related subject matter. It is a great source of reference material and provides some good strategic and historical oversight. The authors have had a challenging task, given the need to balance having sufficient content with not repeating other reference sources... Case studies bring a reality to the hard work and innovative practice taking place, and illustrate the art of the profession, which is the ability to be able to assess cause and effect and ensure resources are channelled in the direction of reducing the impact of cause... It highlights for me how important it is to maintain the profile and share good practice at every opportunity. I am sure that many colleagues will read the book and shout out loud, 'We do that' - but the difficulty comes with finding the time to provide evidence that can be scrutinised and to capture your work." Dave Arkle, Environmental Health News, June 2018 "Using an intersectoral lens, the publication reinforces the importance of an interagency approach that includes health protection and other social, municipal and health professions. Case studies are also incorporated, as well as a review of regulations and legislation that impact housing-related issues in the United Kingdom. This book can be useful to students and both emerging and mature professionals to inform public interventions on housing and health." National Collaborating Centre on the Determinants of Health "Environmental Health and Housing is well documented and researched with detailed references throughout and includes extensive acknowledgements...This book is excellent for updating an experienced EHP. It is invaluable for the student to understand why housing is so important and how the EHP and their professional colleagues can contribute to improving people’s experience of house and home... Jill Stewart and Zena Lynch have produced an outstanding contribution to the environmental health profession." Tim Deveaux, independent environmental health practitioner and authorTable of ContentsChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Why environmental health, public health and housing?Chapter 3 Gathering evidenceChapter 4 Legislation for healthier and safer housingChapter 5 Working more effectively togetherChapter 6 ConclusionsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisGrounded in an extensive array of research sources, this valuable book introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that demand a new approach to how we provide, locate, design and develop homes in which they live.Trade Review"Anyone seeking to create a home for an adult on the autism spectrum needs to read this book. Steele and Ahrentzen combine their extraordinary understanding of autism and design to provide a clear guide for crafting living environments that respond to the unique individual needs of those with ASD." Fred G. Karnas, The Kresge Foundation“In At Home with Autism Kim Steele and Sherry Ahrentzen deliver courageous, compassionate, and assiduously researched design guidelines in service to adults with a singularly challenging neurodevelopmental disorder, the first book to expressly address this topic.” Daniel S. Friedman, School of Architecture, University of Hawai`i at M?noa“This book offers a useful contribution to the design of housing for people with Autism Spectrum Conditions. The authors bring personal insight and available research… Their book is practically oriented and well-referenced... It is a helpful introductory resource for practitioners, and those interested in the important field of neuroatypical design.” Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction; A research-informed approach for housing design; Quality of life design goals; Design guidelines; On the horizon.

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Book SynopsisBridging housing studies and social policy, this book analyses competing interpretations of the role and value of social housing in the UK. The author provides new research on the relationship between housing and wellbeing, and challenges the pervasive policy and social consensus that owner-occupation is the natural' choice of aspiring people.Table of Contents1. Introduction: housing, wellbeing and welfare PART I Meaning and purpose: discourses of social housing 2. Wellbeing: meaning and measurement 3. Discourses of dependency: social housing, welfare, and political debate 4. Counter-narratives: dependency, culture, and the myth of worklessness PART II Social housing, wellbeing, and experiences of the home 5. Experiences of the home: place, identity, and security 6. Mental health, happiness, and satisfaction with life PART III Rethinking the ‘social’ in social housing: common needs, shared identities 7. Social housing and welfare spheres 8. Rethinking the ‘social’ in social housing: common needs, shared identities

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Book SynopsisUsing a unique archive spanning the lifetime of twenty council estates in the UK, this book examines what we can learn from council housing’s failings and successes for building sustainable communities in the future.Trade Review"This scholarly and fascinating book combines rigorous statistics and the lived experiences of council estate residents over time to underpin a framework for future solutions to providing affordable and social housing for all who need it." Kate Pickett, University of YorkTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction; Learning from 100 years on 20 less successful estates; The debatable rise and fall of social housing; How neighbourhoods and estates change over time; The 20 estates; The scope of the book; Part 2: The falls and rises of the 20 estates; The fall in housing quality; The rise in housing quality; The fall and rise in safety and order; The fall and rise in popularity; Changes in the mix of residents; The estates’ social environments; Residents’ access to opportunities; The survival of the 20 estates; The fall of council housing tenure; Part 3: Explaining the changes over 100 years in 20 estates; Summarising the changes over 100 years in 20 estates; National and local factors influencing estates’ housing quality; National and estate factors influencing safety and order in estates; National and local factors influencing demand for estates, popularity and resident mix; Conclusions: 100 years on 20 estates and the implications for all social housing.

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Book SynopsisOften portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept. This book explores the legislative changes dismantling vulnerable groups' rights to decent and affordable housing.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The politicisation of home 2. The bedroom tax and diminishing rights to home 3. Temporary is the new permanent: temporary accommodation policy and the rise of family homelessness 4. The criminalisation of home: section 144 and its impact on London’s squatters 5. Fighting for home: activism and resistance in precarious times Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world. Demonstrating the impact of housing on the non-human environment, the book considers the future direction of inhabitation policies on climate change and biodiversity.Table of Contents1. Inhabitation in Nature 2. New materialism in housing studies: opportunities and obstacles 3. Inhabitation practices 4. Analysing inhabitation practices 5. Consumption practices 6. Production practices 7. Out of home inhabitation practices 8. Conclusion: inhabitation research and policy

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Book SynopsisRejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world. Demonstrating the impact of housing on the non-human environment, the book considers the future direction of inhabitation policies on climate change and biodiversity.

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Book SynopsisIn the latest edition of Social Policy Review, experts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year. Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this volume addresses current issues and critical debates throughout the international social policy field.Table of ContentsGlobal developments in social policy research - Ruggero Cefalo, Marcia Rose and Andy Jolly Part 1: Intergenerational research 1. Intergenerational research, policy and practice for sustaining social care in the UK: current challenges and future aspirations - Lois Peach, Lena Sakure, Mirain Llwyd Roberts, Stephanie Green and Kate Howson 2. An intergenerational divide in the context of COVID-19? - Lizzie Ward and Stephanie Fleischer 3. Impacts of substance use across generations: exploring how the risk of problem substance use can be impacted by locus of control - Penelope Laycock 4. COVID-19 and intergenerational equity: can social protection initiatives transcend caste barriers in India? - Akanksha Sanil 5. Two levels of agency: the negotiation of intergenerational support in Chinese families - Jiaxin Liu Part 2: Research developments in social policy analysis 6. The impact of COVID-19 on the residential care sector for the elderly: employment and care regimes in the European comparative perspective - Marco Arlotti and Stefano Neri 7. Curating Spaces of Hope: exploring the potential for Faith Based Organisations in uncertain times - Matthew Barber-Rowell 8. The ‘Innovative Job Agency’: an experiment in renewing local social services in Pisa (Italy) - Elena Vivaldi, Andrea Blasini and Federico Bruno 9. Inequality within equalities: an institutionalist examination of equalities interest groups engagement in a third sector-government partnership - Amy Sanders Part 3: Policy developments 10. Homelessness and the coronavirus - Hilary Silver 11. A Cultural Political Economy case study of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund: critiquing welfare policy in the reproduction of subordination and inequality - Eve Yeo and Joe Greener 12. Unmet need, epistemic injustice and early death: how social policy for Autistic adults in England and Wales fails to slay Beveridge’s Five Giants - Aimee Grant, Gemma Williams, Kathryn Williams and Richard Woods

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Book SynopsisSean 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.

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Book Synopsis‘A conscience-pricking look at the reality of life on Britain’s streets . . . Illuminating, timely and urgent’ – Sunday Times‘A story that desperately needed to be told’ – Michael SheenTony froze to death in the garden of the house he used to own. Aisha dreams of becoming a nurse, but spends night after night seeking a place to sleep. Jon is an expert at squatting, using his skills to keep others off the street. Jim turned a bus he bought on eBay into a portable shelter. David was a homeless army veteran on the verge of taking his own life when he was saved by Gavin's kindness, now he's a successful artist and activist.Maeve McClenaghan has spent years investigating the crisis on Britain's streets. These are only some of the stories of struggle, loss, survival and courage she has heard. No Fixed Abode will change how you think about homelessness and show you that this crisis is not impossible to solve.This paperback edition includes a new preface covering the impact of Covid-19.‘A much-needed antidote to the apathy that can often surround homelessness. It is movingly told, passionately argued and totally engrossing’ – iTrade ReviewA conscience-pricking look at the reality of life on Britain’s streets . . . No Fixed Abode couldn’t be more illuminating, timely and urgent. * Sunday Times *‘A meticulous investigation exposes the shameful truths surrounding the UK’s homeless population . . . moving and revealing . . . McClenaghan does a good job of bringing to life the stories of the people she describes’ -- Harry Stopes * Guardian *Compelling, compassionate and hard-hitting . . . It tells a very important story in a human way and in doing so motivates the reader to demand change. It is a campaigning book of the very highest order -- Eoin Ó Broin * Irish Times *An urgent, searing examination of our homelessness crisis . . . a much-needed antidote to the apathy that can often surround homelessness. It is movingly told, passionately argued and totally engrossing * i *A story that desperately needed to be told -- Michael SheenUrgent, gripping and devastating -- The Secret BarristerI sat down and wept . . . A challenging and compassionate investigation into British homelessness . . . McClenaghan writes with the pace and clarity you’d expect of an award-winning investigative reported chasing a lead * The Tablet *A sensitive exposé that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell. -- Cash Carraway, author of Skint EstateAn incredible journalist. Her work on homelessness in the UK is vital and urgent . . . Maeve’s book gives space to the stories of those at the sharp end of the housing crisis. She treats them as people, not numbers. -- Vicky Spratt * Refinery29 *An important strength of the book is the respectful way it treats homeless people. * Socialist Worker *Moving and insightful, this is a masterclass in the best of investigative journalism -- Jenny Kleeman, author of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat

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