Housing and homelessness Books

Book SynopsisIncome inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality.Trade Review"Here is another strong, valuable, and timely addition to the 'Studies in Social Inequality' series, offering provocative arguments that will engage a wide audience of readers. Experts whose minds have been in the compelling clutch of stratification questions, attentive to scholarship surrounding class, race, and gender inequalities, will find in the book's five debates such an effective mixture of disciplinary voices that a refreshing review of their own assumptions and perspectives is nearly guaranteed. [T]his book invites a more nuanced and discerning reflection, low on rhetoric and high on reasoning. . . Highly recommended."—R. Zingraff, Choice"The major strength of this volume is its presentation of ongoing academic debates about inequality in a manner approachable to laymen . . . Not only does it offer a glimpse into how different disciplines approach inequality theoretically and methodologically, it also exemplifies how each discipline, with its unique approach, reaches the same conclusion: our current level of economic inequality is detrimental to society."—Martin T. Kosla, Journal of Children and Poverty"Americans are no longer so tolerant of the widening gap between the CEO and the average worker, between the very top and the very bottom of the income distribution. The mobility dreams of generations are coming unglued as long term unemployment deepens, threatening to scar young workers in ways that may follow them the rest of their days. The New Gilded Age assembles the very best scholars in economics, sociology, and political science to assess what these conditions mean for ordinary people and how the 'great awakening' to the threat that inequality poses could reshape the landscape of public opinion and, perhaps ultimately, public policy. It is an essential volume for scholars and citizens worried about the direction we are headed and the cost we will pay for inaction on the inequality front."—Katherine Newman, Johns Hopkins University, coauthor of Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged"Americans have finally awakened to the realities of The New Gilded Age. Those looking for answers to questions about the new inequality will find them in this trenchant book edited by David Grusky and Tamar Kricheli-Katz, who have brought together eminent thinkers to address the moral, political, and social problems stemming from today's hyper-inequality. The result is an engaging and highly readable survey of critical issues that should be read by anyone who cares about the future of the American experiment in egalitarian democracy."—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University"The New Gilded Age features incredibly insightful and timely debates between leading philosophers, economists, political scientists, and sociologists on the sources and future of inequality in the United States. This well written and accessible volume is a must-read not only for scholars, but for educated laymen and policymakers as well."—William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisPresents an up-to-date look at the social processes and consequences of China's rapid economic growth.Trade Review"This book's contribution ... is the detailed depiction of the mechanisms that affect Chinese society as it undergoes a rapid transformation in the post colonial period. Despite some flaws, this is the most comprehensive and insightful books in recent years to address the issue of social inequality in globalizing China."—Pun Nagi, The China Journal "The book indeed maps a wide range of social inequality in China: age, gender, class, sector, and regional inequality .... The value of the book for researchers in the field of social stratification actually lies in its variety."—Xiaodan Zhang, China Quarterly"This is the best and most comprehensive volume to have been published on social inequality in contemporary China in quite some time. Non of the chapters disappoint, and all contributions are of consistently high quality. Every sociologist and political scientist, as well as many economists, specializing in China will have to react to this book, and every library should acquire it."—William Hurst, Journal of Asian Studies"The [book] is of high quality."—Dominique Tyl, Chinese Cross Currents."Addressing key issues in debates related to market transition in China, this comprehensive, unique collection will no doubt have audiences in many disciplines. It is the only recent volume of its kind, and the caliber of the contributors guarantees visibility."—Lisa Keister, Duke University"A group of prominent scholars use fresh survey data and in-depth ethnographic analysis and examine a broad range of issues relating to economic and social changes in contemporary China. This timely volume contains some unexpected and fascinating findings which provide new perspectives for understanding a rapidly evolving society." —Wenfang Tang, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Contributors POVERTY, WEALTH, and STRATIFICATION: THE INTERCONNECTIONS Chapter.1 Poverty and Wealth in Postsocialist China: An Overview Deborah Davis and Wang Feng Chapter 2 Market vs. Social Benefits: Explaining China's Changing Income Inequality Qin Gao and Carl Riskin Chapter 3 Market and Gender Pay Equity: Have Chinese Reforms Narrowed the Gap? Philip N. Cohen and Wang Feng Chapter 4 The Two Faces of Luxury: Gender and Generational Inequality in a Beijing Hotel Eileen Otis Chapter 5 The Changing Structure of Employment in Contemporary China Peter Evans and Sarah Staveteig POSTSOCIALIST POWER AND PROPERTY RELATIONS Chapter 6 Institutional Basis of Socialist Stratification in Transitional China Liu Xin Chapter 7 Rethinking Corporatist Bases of Stratification in Rural China Xueguang Zhou Chapter 8 Creating Wealth: Land Seizure, Local Government and Farmers Zhou Feizhou Chapter 9 Resolution Mechanisms for Land Rights Disputes Zhang Jing POSTSOCIALIST LIFE CHANCES Chapter 10 Regional Inequality in China: Mortality and Health Yong Cai Chapter 11 Beyond Cost: Rural Perspectives on Barriers to Education Emily Hannum and Jennifer Adams Chapter 12 Urban Occupational Mobility and Employment Institutions Yanjie Bian INTERPRETING POSTSOCIALIST WEALTH AND POVERTY Chapter 13 Social Contours of Distributive Injustice Feelings in Contemporary China Chunping Han and Martin King Whyte Chapter 14 From Inequality to Inequity: Popular Conception of Social (In)justice in Beijing Ching Kwan Lee Chapter 15 Social Stratification: The Legacy of the Late Imperial Past R. Bin Wong Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reports the results of the first systematic nationwide survey in China of the attitudes that ordinary Chinese citizens have toward increased inequalities generated by the market reform program launched in 1978.Trade Review"Based on representative and high quality survey data, this study is a great example of how research on China can contribute to our understanding of the country and also the broader discipline." -- Daniela Stockmann * Journal of Chinese Political Science *"Whyte's data and conclusions are based on sophisticated survey research . . . Whyte's book is extremely provocative, challenging the 'common sense' of most Western scholars and much of the Chinese leadership." -- Richard Levy"This path-breaking study answers the rarely touched question of how people feel about the newly emerging inequality in contemporary China. As one of the pioneers of survey research on China, Martin King Whyte presents unexpected and fascinating findings with solid empirical evidence. This book is a landmark study on distributive injustice." -- Wenfang Tang * University of Iowa *"This book represents a hallmark of meticulous and thoughtful scholarship. Whyte cleverly situates the puzzling findings on attitudes toward inequality in a rich account of the historical transformations of the Chinese system of social stratification. A master piece of both historical depth and scientific rigor." -- Xiaoling Shu, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology * UC Davis *"[Myth of the Social Volcano] presented valuable new information on perspectives of inequality and distributive injustice in China. Whyte conducted the first systematic, nationwide survey of ordinary Chinese citizens on inequality and distributive justice . . . The book is well written and highly informative. Furthermore, it presents a fascinating account of how China transformed itself from a relatively egalitarian society to one of significant inequality in no more than three decades." -- Alvin Y. So"A pioneering sociologist of China, Whyte takes on an immensely important yet long-neglected issue of how Chinese people feel about growing inequalities. He presents a systematic analysis of an original, carefully-designed national survey, offers contested interpretations, and makes a timely contribution to our understanding of a fast changing Chinese society." -- Yanjie Bian * University of Minnesota & Xi'an Jiaotong University *

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Book SynopsisThis book reports the results of the first systematic nationwide survey in China of the attitudes that ordinary Chinese citizens have toward increased inequalities generated by the market reform program launched in 1978.Trade Review"Based on representative and high quality survey data, this study is a great example of how research on China can contribute to our understanding of the country and also the broader discipline." -- Daniela Stockmann * Journal of Chinese Political Science *"Whyte's data and conclusions are based on sophisticated survey research . . . Whyte's book is extremely provocative, challenging the 'common sense' of most Western scholars and much of the Chinese leadership." -- Richard Levy"This path-breaking study answers the rarely touched question of how people feel about the newly emerging inequality in contemporary China. As one of the pioneers of survey research on China, Martin King Whyte presents unexpected and fascinating findings with solid empirical evidence. This book is a landmark study on distributive injustice." -- Wenfang Tang * University of Iowa *"This book represents a hallmark of meticulous and thoughtful scholarship. Whyte cleverly situates the puzzling findings on attitudes toward inequality in a rich account of the historical transformations of the Chinese system of social stratification. A master piece of both historical depth and scientific rigor." -- Xiaoling Shu, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology * UC Davis *"[Myth of the Social Volcano] presented valuable new information on perspectives of inequality and distributive injustice in China. Whyte conducted the first systematic, nationwide survey of ordinary Chinese citizens on inequality and distributive justice . . . The book is well written and highly informative. Furthermore, it presents a fascinating account of how China transformed itself from a relatively egalitarian society to one of significant inequality in no more than three decades." -- Alvin Y. So"A pioneering sociologist of China, Whyte takes on an immensely important yet long-neglected issue of how Chinese people feel about growing inequalities. He presents a systematic analysis of an original, carefully-designed national survey, offers contested interpretations, and makes a timely contribution to our understanding of a fast changing Chinese society." -- Yanjie Bian * University of Minnesota & Xi'an Jiaotong University *

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Book SynopsisBroke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America.Trade Review"Katherine Porter has edited an important contribution to the literature on family economic distress, the lived-experience of families in debt, and related issues of the intersections of social class, gender, and race with each other, as well as education, employment, and homownership. . . When used in graduate programs in law, social work, or other fiels whose practitioners confront these issues, advocates can utilize this valuable resource in their daily work." -- Michael D. Gillespie * International Review of Modern Sociology *"[Broke paints] a vivid picture of a complex problem. Supplemented by graphs that help the reader visualize the trends, the content is accessible to students as well as [Family and Consumer Science] professionals of all disciplines who are seeking to understand our changing economic world in a partisan political climate. In addition to providing solid, timely research data, the book is engaging and well written." -- Jean M. Lown * Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences *"[T]imely . . . Recommended." -- S. Pressman * CHOICE *"Going to college and buying a home used to be pathways to the middle class. Broke shows that for increasing numbers of Americans they are pathways to personal bankruptcy. This outstanding collection of essays documents the social costs of America's ongoing household debt crisis, and the many ways in which public policy has rigged the game against borrowers." -- Isaac William Martin * University of California, San Diego, author of The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics *"For anyone tired of hype and rhetoric, at last a book that analyzes the growing effects of debt and bankruptcy on the middle class with rigor and data. Each chapter, crisply written and rich with analysis, lets readers draw their own conclusions." -- John A. E. Pottow * University of Michigan Law School *"An important collection on consumer finance that offers a troubling window on the financial stresses on the American middle class. Broke breaks new ground in exploring families in bankruptcy, examining the interaction of issues like race, mortgage debt, and student loan debt with the bankruptcy process." -- Adam J. Levitin * Georgetown University Law Center *"Too many American families are deep in debt because their wages haven't kept up, their jobs are vanishing, and their homes worth less and less. It's not only a human tragedy for them but also a national problem as their debt burden hobbles the American economy and their inability to repay cripples lenders. What should be done? Here's a useful and insightful guide to policies that can help." -- Robert B. Reich * author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future *"Risk and return are inseparable. While debt can enable families to buy homes, obtain education, and start businesses, it does so by amplifying both upturns and downturns. Broke clearly illustrates the consequences when overextended families experience the roller coaster ride leading to bankruptcy." -- Peter Tufano * University of Oxford *

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Book SynopsisBroke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America.Trade Review"Katherine Porter has edited an important contribution to the literature on family economic distress, the lived-experience of families in debt, and related issues of the intersections of social class, gender, and race with each other, as well as education, employment, and homownership. . . When used in graduate programs in law, social work, or other fiels whose practitioners confront these issues, advocates can utilize this valuable resource in their daily work."—Michael D. Gillespie, International Review of Modern Sociology"[Broke paints] a vivid picture of a complex problem. Supplemented by graphs that help the reader visualize the trends, the content is accessible to students as well as [Family and Consumer Science] professionals of all disciplines who are seeking to understand our changing economic world in a partisan political climate. In addition to providing solid, timely research data, the book is engaging and well written."—Jean M. Lown, Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences"[T]imely . . . Recommended."—S. Pressman, CHOICE"Going to college and buying a home used to be pathways to the middle class. Broke shows that for increasing numbers of Americans they are pathways to personal bankruptcy. This outstanding collection of essays documents the social costs of America's ongoing household debt crisis, and the many ways in which public policy has rigged the game against borrowers."—Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego, author of The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics"For anyone tired of hype and rhetoric, at last a book that analyzes the growing effects of debt and bankruptcy on the middle class with rigor and data. Each chapter, crisply written and rich with analysis, lets readers draw their own conclusions." —John A. E. Pottow, University of Michigan Law School"An important collection on consumer finance that offers a troubling window on the financial stresses on the American middle class. Broke breaks new ground in exploring families in bankruptcy, examining the interaction of issues like race, mortgage debt, and student loan debt with the bankruptcy process."—Adam J. Levitin, Georgetown University Law Center"Too many American families are deep in debt because their wages haven't kept up, their jobs are vanishing, and their homes worth less and less. It's not only a human tragedy for them but also a national problem as their debt burden hobbles the American economy and their inability to repay cripples lenders. What should be done? Here's a useful and insightful guide to policies that can help."—Robert B. Reich, author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future"Risk and return are inseparable. While debt can enable families to buy homes, obtain education, and start businesses, it does so by amplifying both upturns and downturns. Broke clearly illustrates the consequences when overextended families experience the roller coaster ride leading to bankruptcy."—Peter Tufano, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisForeclosed America offers a portrait of the people who lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis-who they are, how and where they live after losing their homes, and what they have to say about their finances, their neighborhoods, and American politics.Trade Review"Isaac Martin and Christopher Niedt offer the most compelling portrait yet of the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis. In their brisk analysis, they provide an autopsy of the crisis and the anemic policy response. With an unrelenting focus on people, they deepen the democratic imperatives that must inform the housing policies of the future."—john powell, Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley"The losses suffered by Americans from the foreclosure crisis cannot simply be measured in dollars. The harms of home loss are to families, communities, society, and our political process. Foreclosed America takes a long overdue big picture look at the fallout from foreclosure."—Katherine Porter, University of California, Irvine School of Law, editor of Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class"Isaac Martin and Christopher Niedt offer the first examination of the human impacts of the foreclosure crisis, and in so doing speak to our collective failure to rise to the challenge of Wall Street's domination of our politics and public policy. In bringing these dispossessed and invisible homeowners into full view, Martin and Niedt call upon us to address once and for all the roots and impacts of the crisis."—Brian Kettenring, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular DemocracyTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Ten million people chapter abstractThis chapter describes the mortgage foreclosure crisis from the standpoint of mortgage borrowers. It begins with an overview of the typical foreclosure process. It narrates how deregulation of mortgage lending and secondary mortgage markets led to a bubble, and then to the historic crash in 2007. It reviews existing research on the crisis and notes the absence of studies concerned with the people who lost their homes. It also introduces the National Suburban Poll, a survey data set that permits a representative overview of these dispossessed Americans. 2Who are the dispossessed Americans? chapter abstractThis chapter describes the people who lost homes because they could not pay their mortgages between 2007 and 2012. Younger homeowners, parents of young children, and people of color are overrepresented among them, but the typical adult who lost a home, like the typical person who did not, is a white person in early middle age with some college education and no children. What they have in common is bad luck and financial hardship. People who lost homes in the financial crisis have lower incomes, less stable finances, and more anxiety about their finances than otherwise identical people who did not lose homes in the crisis. They are more likely to be divorced or unemployed. Statistical models and personal narratives suggest that among people who were financially vulnerable to losing a home in the crisis years, all it took was bad luck to push them over the brink. 3Communities in crisis chapter abstractThis chapter describes the living arrangements and neighborhoods of individuals who lost their homes in the crisis. Most of them live in suburbs close to where they work. They generally have not moved far, and a quarter of them are even living in the same neighborhoods where they lived when they lost their homes. But their present housing arrangements are more precarious. Most are renting or living in shared housing. Many have doubled up at least temporarily by moving in with kin, friends, or roommates. They report big problems in their neighborhoods, from unemployment and unaffordable housing to crime, drugs, and violence. Their former neighbors—people who say that they know a neighbor who lost a home—are more likely to report abandoned or run-down homes as a big neighborhood problem. 4Disenfranchised and disillusioned chapter abstractThis chapter argues that the policy response to the foreclosure crisis has ignored the needs of dispossessed Americans because they are not a powerful voting bloc. They are less likely to stay registered and less likely to vote than other Americans, because losing a home makes it hard to stay registered to vote and hard to maintain the relationships that turn people out to the polls on election day. The dispossessed and the other adults in their households are also disillusioned with politics. They think government should do more to reduce economic inequalities, but they do not have confidence that it will. The lack of confidence in government may reflect their experiences of the crisis: federal policy responses focused on restoring housing markets to functioning, but have done little to redress the suffering of those who lost their homes when those markets failed.

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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 SynopsisTopics include trauma-informed frameworks, policies affecting homelessness and housing insecurity, transitioning to college, supporting college retention, collaborations and partnerships, and transitioning to life after college.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Timothy P. White ix 1. Introduction 1 Size of the Issue 2 Importance of Higher Education for Future Stability 5 You Play an Important Role 6 Preview of the Book 6 2. Housing Insecurity in Higher Education 8 Higher Education Housing Continuum 8 Categories of Housing Status in the Continuum 12 Person-First Language 22 Conclusion 23 3. Social and Political Context 24 Economic Context 24 Social Context 26 Impact on Education 29 Policies Framing Higher Education 31 Conclusion 39 4. Trauma-Informed and Sensitive Colleges 43 What Is (and Is Not) Trauma 43 Becoming a Trauma-Informed and Sensitive College 46 Conclusion 50 5. Localizing Housing Insecurity 52 Gathering a Team 53 Learning About the Issue 58 Conducting a Self-Study 60 Convincing Administration to Move to Evaluation Stage 65 Conclusion 66 6. Evaluating Housing Insecurity on Your Campus 68 Where to Begin 69 Comprehensive Evaluation Design 70 Using Existing Institutional Surveys 72 Evaluation Tools 72 Outcomes 76 Student Voices 77 Recruiting Participation 79 Writing the Final Report 80 Lessons Learned 82 Conclusion 85 7. Implementing Strategies to Improve Student Experiences 86 Student Input and Support 87 Students Considering and Enrolling in College 89 Developing a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Model on Campus 90 Leveraging Existing Services 94 Developing New Programs to Address Housing Insecurity 99 Responses to Food Insecurity 104 Career Services and Life After Graduation 108 Potential Roadblocks 108 Conclusion 109 8. Sustaining Efforts Over Time 111 Avoid Isolated Services 112 Maintain Community Partnerships 112 Integrate Basic Needs Security into Strategic Planning 112 Connect with Advancement and Philanthropy Offices 113 Provide Training for Faculty and Staff 115 Use Media to Advance Your Message 116 Advocate for Higher Education Policies 116 Meet Regularly 117 Conduct Continuous Evaluation 118 Conclusion 118 9. Looking Forward 120 This Work Is Hard, But It Matters 120 Take Care of Yourself 121 Share Your Story 123 Appendix A: Measuring Homelessness and Housing Insecurity 125 Appendix B: Assessing Student Supports 127 Appendix C: Meeting Students’ Basic Needs 131 Appendix D: California State University, Long Beach, Basic Needs Program 133 References 135 Index 139 About the Authors 147

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Book SynopsisBrings to the forefront the concept of homelessness. The book points out that homelessness remains underexplored in historical archaeology, a fact which may reflect societal biases and marginalization, and it provides the field’s first comprehensive discussion of the subject.

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Book SynopsisThrough a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cite Soleil, this book demonstrates the complex interplay between local and global politics that so often thwarts well-intended policy initiatives. It argues that we too easily overlook the political dynamics that shape choices about family planning.Table of ContentsForeword: Unraveling Fertility and Power by Paul FarmerAcknowledgements Acronyms 1 Introduction: When Pigs Feasted and People Starved 2 Interpretations of Reproduction: Demography, Anthropology, and the Political Economy of Fertility 3 Gender and Survival: Living on the Edge in Cité Soleil 4 The Family Planning Center: A Clinic in Conflict 5 A Community Consumed: Fire, Politics, and Health Care 6 The Political Economy of International Aid: Grounding Ethnography, Engaging History 7 Health in Haiti: Producing EquityEpilogue Appendix: Organizations Supporting COmprehensive Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programmes supported by state and national governments. Jennifer Geist Rutledge investigates how and why states have assumed responsibility for feeding children, chronicling the origins and spread of school lunch programmes around the world.Trade Review"Interesting, persuasive, and clearly written. Rutledge investigates the origins and spread of school lunch programs around the world in her truly insightful book." -- Kimberly Morgan * professor of political science and international affairs, George Washington University *"Rutledge powerfully highlights the broad reach of school lunch programs at the global scale as well as compellingly characterizing and explaining this as a global policy promoted by global institutions such as the UN." -- Gerard W. Boychuk * coeditor of After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction 2 Hunger, Education, and Agriculture 3 The First Wave in Europe: Women and Welfare 4 The United States: Surplus, Security, and Schools 5 The Second Wave: The UN’s World Food Programme6 Changes and Challenges: The Competing Pressures of Home-Grown School Feeding and Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs7 Conclusion Appendix: Data and MethodsNotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"In this book, Botein and Hetling provide a thorough and historically informed assessment of our continuing inability to respond effectively to the housing needs of victims of interpersonal violence. By highlighting some effective (and ineffective) strategies, and from their listening to the views of the women affected, they point a way forward that focuses us more quickly on the endgame – stable, long-term housing." -- Dennis Culhane * Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania *"Botein and Hetling have written a marvelously insightful analysis on the importance of housing for abused women seeking a life free of domestic violence. This book shows us how to move forward towards sustainable policy and will be an asset to researchers, advocacy organizations, and all else who care the most about abused women’s needs for stable, safe, and affordable housing." -- Jacquelyn Campbell * PhD, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Why Long-Term Housing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence? Chapter 1 - “Why Doesn’t She Leave?”: Intimate Partner Violence and Housing Instability Chapter 2 - “How Does Housing Help?”: A “Services Light” Long-Term Housing Model Part II The Current Policy and Service Environment: How Did We Get Here? Chapter 3 - First Stop: Emergency Shelters and Transitional Programs Chapter 4 - Mismatch between US Social Policy and Intimate Partner Violence Part III An Evolving Approach: Long-Term Housing Chapter 5 - National Overview: Legislative Response and Program Variations Chapter 6 - Developing Program Theory and Goals: Long-Term Housing with Services Chapter 7 - Survivor Perspectives on Program Theory and Models Part IV Next Steps? Chapter 8 - Moving Forward: Research and Policy Epilogue: A Practitioner’s Perspective Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and the homeless of New York CityTrade Review"Gibson offers an ethnographic exploration of outreach work with the homeless youth in New York City." -- A. Dworsky * Choice *"Gibson provides a major theoretical advance in our understanding of the spatial dynamics of youth homelessness." -- Alex Vitale,author of City of Disorder"Gibson’s thoughtful and sobering analysis of the hyper-mobility of homeless youth and the street is rich and engaging." -- Amy L. Best,author of Fast Cars, Cool RidesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. "Our Nation": Women and the NOI, Pre-1975 2. "Thank God It Changed!": Women's Transition to Sunni Islam, 1975-80 3. Resurrecting the Nation: Women in Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam 4. Women in the Nation of Islam and the Warith Deen Mohammed Community: Crafting a Dialogue Conclusion Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisSince the end of World War II, poverty in the United States has been a persistent focus of social anxiety, public debate and federal policy. This book argues that poverty will not be reduced or eliminated until the political factors that contribute to its continuation are taken into account.Trade Review"This collection of 17 essays examines poverty and its causes from a variety of angles. The common thread is a concern for the structural causes of poverty; the book therefore offers a welcome alternative to the dominant ideological views that portray poverty as a result of individuals' decisions, attributes and/or moral failings...The authors show the connections between capitalism, slavery and the development of state policies and ideologies that maintained the oppressed and exploited status of African Americans after the Civil War and constituted the basis for the emergence of white identity and privilege to the detriment of working class identities based on a recognition of the common plight of workers, regardless of skin color...this is an outstanding collection, useful for courses in social stratification, the sociology of work, and race and ethnic relations." * Science and Society *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finally, in all the work done on homelessness, Craig Willse puts the focus on the complexity of violence and the ways in which housing intersects with poverty, class, sexuality, and, especially, race."—Vincent Lyon-Callo, Western Michigan University"The Value of Homelessness. . . contains detailed and provocative claims that move beyond current paradigms on the governance of homeless populations. . . Willse’s text undoubtedly makes an important contribution towards a necessary rethinking of homelessness. It is a book which will likely be of interest to all those passionate about matters of social justice for years to come."—Society & Space"This book asks and then critically answers the question of what it means to be homeless. . . a must read for anyone interested in the issue."—CHOICE"This is genuinely an important read for people in the homeless service industry and those in power and shaping policy."—RealChangeNews.orgTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Housing and Other Monsters1. Surplus Life, or Race and Death in Neoliberal Times2. Homelessness as Method: Social Science and the Racial Order3. From Pathology to Population: Managing Homelessness in the United States4. Governing through Numbers: HUD and the Databasing of Homelessness5. The Invention of Chronic HomelessnessConclusion: Surplus Life at the Limits of the GoodNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kimberley Kinder’s DIY Detroit is a clever, beautifully written account of everyday life in the wake of conventional market collapse and decades of austerity. It describes the ways that Detroiters have adapted, often defensively, always informally, sometimes illegally, to life without conventional markets and routine municipal services."—Jason Hackworth, author of Neoliberal City"The book moves easily between personal and neighborhood stories, and big-picture reflections. The thinking is of high quality and the prose is readable rather than academic."—Planning Magazine"Geographic, ethnographic, and often narratively compelling."—Consumption Markets & Culture"HIghly readable."—CHOICE"DIY Detroit is filled with these simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking tales of perseverance and innovation. Worthwhile."—Reason.com"DIY Detroit is frankly the Detroit book I have been waiting for. It adds a much-needed perspective to the literatures on urban decay and collective self-provisioning activities."—H-Net Reviews"Ultimately, Kinder has produced a timely and detailed account of how residents are getting by amidst disinvestment. Her ability to bring her characters and neighborhoods alive by elucidating otherwise unremarkable moments and encounters is impressive. DIY Detroit is an eminently accessible text, stemming, in part, from Kinder’s skill at crafting crisp sentences and her choice to leave citations to the endnotes."—Antipode "An engaging and informative read, which also makes a compelling argument for the value of qualitative urban research."—Housing Studies "DIY Detroit is a beautifully written book. Kinder’s account provides important insights into ongoing debates over the future of the so-called comparative gesture in a more geographically pluralistic urban geography." —AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Self-Provisioning in Detroit1. Do-It-Yourself Cities2. Seeking New Neighbors3. Protecting Vacant Homes4. Repurposing Abandonment5. Domesticating Public Works6. Policing Home Spaces7. Producing Local KnowledgeConclusion: Triumphs of Hope over ReasonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kimberley Kinder’s DIY Detroit is a clever, beautifully written account of everyday life in the wake of conventional market collapse and decades of austerity. It describes the ways that Detroiters have adapted, often defensively, always informally, sometimes illegally, to life without conventional markets and routine municipal services."—Jason Hackworth, author of Neoliberal City"The book moves easily between personal and neighborhood stories, and big-picture reflections. The thinking is of high quality and the prose is readable rather than academic."—Planning Magazine"Geographic, ethnographic, and often narratively compelling."—Consumption Markets & Culture"HIghly readable."—CHOICE"DIY Detroit is filled with these simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking tales of perseverance and innovation. Worthwhile."—Reason.com"DIY Detroit is frankly the Detroit book I have been waiting for. It adds a much-needed perspective to the literatures on urban decay and collective self-provisioning activities."—H-Net Reviews"Ultimately, Kinder has produced a timely and detailed account of how residents are getting by amidst disinvestment. Her ability to bring her characters and neighborhoods alive by elucidating otherwise unremarkable moments and encounters is impressive. DIY Detroit is an eminently accessible text, stemming, in part, from Kinder’s skill at crafting crisp sentences and her choice to leave citations to the endnotes."—Antipode "An engaging and informative read, which also makes a compelling argument for the value of qualitative urban research."—Housing Studies "DIY Detroit is a beautifully written book. Kinder’s account provides important insights into ongoing debates over the future of the so-called comparative gesture in a more geographically pluralistic urban geography." —AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Self-Provisioning in Detroit1. Do-It-Yourself Cities2. Seeking New Neighbors3. Protecting Vacant Homes4. Repurposing Abandonment5. Domesticating Public Works6. Policing Home Spaces7. Producing Local KnowledgeConclusion: Triumphs of Hope over ReasonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the last three years the migrant labor hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theaters of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities.Trade Review“This is an excellent book: it is easy to read and provides a deep analysis of apartheid and its consequences by homing in on one particular kind of institution. It provides a means to self-examination for both black and white readers which is so much needed in South African writing now…A work which is among the best recent South African publications.” * Journal of Southern African Studies *

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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 SynopsisBruce O'Neill shows how the Bucharest, Romania's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized around practices of consumption, leaving them mired in an unshakeable boredom and the slow deterioration of their lives that are symptomatic of the alienation brought on by globalization.Trade Review“An excellent and thorough exploration of the mundane emotion of boredom. This ethnography is certainly necessary reading for anyone working in the area of homelessness, especially, but also those interested in the impacts of global capitalism more broadly.” -- Christopher M. Kloth * Anthropology Book Forum *“The Space of Boredom offers a detailed and sensitive cartography . . . both of what the author calls ‘boredom’ and of the particular context he studied. The image he paints of a looming, barren autumn—which the homeless live, but which hangs over all of us—should be of concern everywhere.” -- George Tudorie * Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations *"A historically rich and theoretically innovative ethnography of contemporary homelessness and social exclusion in Bucharest." -- Peter Soles Muirhead * Allegra Lab *"This book is a brilliant social story." -- Jean Martin Caldieron * Journal of International and Global Studies *“An insightful investigation. The Space of Boredom stands as useful tool for policymakers involved in the integrated alleviation of homelessness and the general development process of the city.” -- Mirela Paraschiv * Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis *"A significant contribution to the anthropological literature on neoliberalism and structural violence . . . O’Neill is evidently attuned to his informants, and portrays thoughtfulness and reflexivity throughout the ethnography. . . . An important book." -- Evy Vourlides * Anthropological Quarterly *"O’Neill’s book serves as excellent doc-umentary evidence on particular cases of homeless people in Bucharest. . . . Chapter by chapter the reader is introduced to the sad but still fascinating realm of people at the margins of a marginal European society." -- Bogdan Voicu * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Space-Time Expansion 19 2. Bleak House 44 3. The Gray Years 72 4. Bored to Death 96 5. Bored Stiff 122 6. Defeat Boredom! 147 Conclusion 175 Notes 185 Bibliography 229 Index 245

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Book SynopsisBruce O'Neill shows how the Bucharest, Romania's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized around practices of consumption, leaving them mired in an unshakeable boredom and the slow deterioration of their lives that are symptomatic of the alienation brought on by globalization.Trade Review“An excellent and thorough exploration of the mundane emotion of boredom. This ethnography is certainly necessary reading for anyone working in the area of homelessness, especially, but also those interested in the impacts of global capitalism more broadly.” -- Christopher M. Kloth * Anthropology Book Forum *“The Space of Boredom offers a detailed and sensitive cartography . . . both of what the author calls ‘boredom’ and of the particular context he studied. The image he paints of a looming, barren autumn—which the homeless live, but which hangs over all of us—should be of concern everywhere.” -- George Tudorie * Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations *"A historically rich and theoretically innovative ethnography of contemporary homelessness and social exclusion in Bucharest." -- Peter Soles Muirhead * Allegra Lab *"This book is a brilliant social story." -- Jean Martin Caldieron * Journal of International and Global Studies *“An insightful investigation. The Space of Boredom stands as useful tool for policymakers involved in the integrated alleviation of homelessness and the general development process of the city.” -- Mirela Paraschiv * Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis *"A significant contribution to the anthropological literature on neoliberalism and structural violence . . . O’Neill is evidently attuned to his informants, and portrays thoughtfulness and reflexivity throughout the ethnography. . . . An important book." -- Evy Vourlides * Anthropological Quarterly *"O’Neill’s book serves as excellent doc-umentary evidence on particular cases of homeless people in Bucharest. . . . Chapter by chapter the reader is introduced to the sad but still fascinating realm of people at the margins of a marginal European society." -- Bogdan Voicu * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Space-Time Expansion 19 2. Bleak House 44 3. The Gray Years 72 4. Bored to Death 96 5. Bored Stiff 122 6. Defeat Boredom! 147 Conclusion 175 Notes 185 Bibliography 229 Index 245

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Book SynopsisFocusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, this book stitches together three different sets of issues. It examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal putting resources, relationships, and even one's world into jeopardy?Trade Review"Told with delicacy, vigour and a sharply criticial eye, this compelling account of the everyday events of illness in low income neighborhoods [in Delhi] shows what anthropological attentiveness can do. If its power comes from the evident power of the mind behind it, it also comes from a modestly understated account of how to be both in the company of people and a recorder of affliction. Above all, it is a work of exquisite attention to the incoherences and normalizations that disease makes of family circumstances, medical practices, state provisioning, singular lives, and that these make of it. Socially sensitive and world-alert at the same time, Das's narrative holds the reader in (gripping, edifying) suspense between its different planes. No less perhaps than one would expect from this author, but a model of social science writing all the same." -- -Marilyn Strathern University of Cambridge "Reading Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty is like observing a master at work. [This is a] formidable piece of scholarship immersed in more than a decade of ethnographic engagement etched in stunningly crafted anthropological prose. This longitudinal immersion in the everyday lives of urban poor produces a tender and intimate account without lapsing into unwitting sentimentality. An ethnographic and theoretical tour de force!" -- -Aditya Bharadwaj The Graduate Institute, Geneva Veena Das offers a complex ethnographic meditation on illness among the urban poor and the diverse kinds of response (practical, methodological, ethical) it invites. As Das so precisely attends to affliction, readers have the privilege of following one of anthropology's most distinctive and distinguished voices." -- -Michael Lambek University of Toronto "...a compelling read that should be of interest to scholars working in medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, and the anthropology of South Asia" -- Leslie Jo Weaver -Anthropology Quarterly "Veena Das' book, 'Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty' provides an important, ethnographically powerful, laddering of scenes of instructions for us all." -- Michael M.J. Fischer -Somatosphere "Over four decades Veena Das has established herself as one of the most imaginative and sensitive writers to be found in any of the human sciences. In this brilliant book, she attends to the everyday work of care and endurance that makes up the life of the poor in Delhi. As ever, her ear is attuned to the fateful turn of phrase, the pause, the silence. But in this new volume she attends to other voices as well-[not only] the voices of health professionals and economists, struggling to put their understanding of the objective conditions that shape the experience of health and poverty to practical use but also the voices of fellow anthropologists wrestling with the limitations of their theoretical and descriptive language. Affliction is a work of great generosity and no little beauty. It is, if anything even more remarkable than its predecessors in Das's remarkable oeuvre." -- -Jonathan Spencer University of Edinburgh "This is a must read for scholars and researchers who work on matters related to health and illness and for those in the academy who see their research as being inherently applied and interdisciplinary in nature." -SCTIW Review "In this beautiful volume, Veena Das continues her quest into the minor events and enduring suffering, the mundane intensity of the present and remembrance of things past that constitute ordinary human existence, thus opening a novel line of reflection and research in what can be called an anthropology of life." -- -Didier Fassin author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the PresentTable of ContentsPreface 1. Affliction: An Introduction 2. How the Body Speaks 3. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 4. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 6. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times 7. Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.Table of ContentsForeword by Gale A. Brewer ix Foreword by Ruben Diaz, Jr. xi Part I: Overview 1 Housing Issues and Experiences 3 2 Getting Started at Settlement Housing Fund 11 Part II: A West Bronx Story 3 Walton and Townsend 19 4 Deciding to Own and Competing to Win 30 5 Collaborations and Battles 39 6 Here Come the Families 49 7 The Stucco Falls Off and the Playground Collapses 61 8 Finding Jack 67 9 Community Programs, Philosophy, and Achievements 76 10 New Settlement Community Campus: The Schools, Center, and Pool 83 11 A Few of the Families 103 12 New Settlement Today 127 Part III: A Tale of Two Bridges 13 Two Bridges: The Early Years 137 14 Two Bridges Houses 143 15 Lands End I 152 16 Lands End II 163 17 The Pathmark 172 18 Two Bridges Townhouses 180 19 Two Bridges Senior Housing 187 20 Two Bridges Tower 195 21 The Future for Two Bridges 213 Part IV: Looking Ahead 22 Lessons and Recommendations 219 Appendix: List of Federal, State, and Local Programs 243 Acknowledgments 247 Index 249

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Easy Essays Published in The Catholic Worker | 19 Unpublished Easy Essays | 423 Appendix I: Four Interviews with Peter Maurin | 491 Appendix II: Peter Maurin’s Radio Interview | 505 Appendix III: Peter Maurin’s Book Recommendations | 509 Biographical Glossary to Peter Maurin’s Easy Essays | 513 Acknowledgments | 561 Easy Essay Index | 563 Name and Topic Index | 577

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Easy Essays Published in The Catholic Worker | 19 Unpublished Easy Essays | 423 Appendix I: Four Interviews with Peter Maurin | 491 Appendix II: Peter Maurin’s Radio Interview | 505 Appendix III: Peter Maurin’s Book Recommendations | 509 Biographical Glossary to Peter Maurin’s Easy Essays | 513 Acknowledgments | 561 Easy Essay Index | 563 Name and Topic Index | 577

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Book SynopsisAn important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today's most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United Statesfrom Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to parTable of ContentsIntroduction Manuel Mejido Costoya | 1 Part I: Public Religion and Community Revitalization Talking About Homelessness: Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in America’s Seventh-Largest City James V. Spickard | 49 Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers: Faith-Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen | 72 Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment, the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond Michael R. Fisher Jr. | 117 Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism Laura Stivers | 140 Homelessness and Health in Seattle: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith-Based Services Lauren Valk Lawson | 162 Part II: Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Reimagined Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions: Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia Bruce Granville Miller | 193 In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are: Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston Nancy A. Khalil | 214 Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered: Situating Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness John A. Coleman, S.J. | 226 On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah: An Invitation to Historicize Contemporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness Jeremy Phillip Brown | 250 Part III: Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle Paul Houston Blankenship | 277 Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development María Teresa Dávila | 297 “And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven”: Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley Roberto Mata | 316 Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C. Sathianathan Clarke | 331 Acknowledgments | 351 List of Contributors | 353 Index | 357

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Book SynopsisAn important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today's most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United Statesfrom Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to parTable of ContentsIntroduction Manuel Mejido Costoya | 1 Part I: Public Religion and Community Revitalization Talking About Homelessness: Shifting Discourses and the Appeal to Religion in America’s Seventh-Largest City James V. Spickard | 49 Becoming More Effective Community Problem Solvers: Faith-Based Organizations, Civic Capacity, and the Homelessness Crisis in Puget Sound Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen | 72 Disenfranchising the Unhoused: Urban Redevelopment, the Criminalization of Homelessness, and the Peril of Prosperity Theology in Dallas and Beyond Michael R. Fisher Jr. | 117 Religious Responses to Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: Addressing White Supremacy and Racism Laura Stivers | 140 Homelessness and Health in Seattle: Challenges and Opportunities of Faith-Based Services Lauren Valk Lawson | 162 Part II: Religious Worldviews and the Common Good Reimagined Homelessness and Coast Salish Spiritual Traditions: Cultural Resources for Programmatic Responses in British Columbia Bruce Granville Miller | 193 In These United States, Homelessness Is Who You Are: Examining a Socially Constructed Category through the Lens of an Interfaith Encounter in Downtown Boston Nancy A. Khalil | 214 Religion and Civic Activism Reconsidered: Situating Faith-Based Responses to Homelessness John A. Coleman, S.J. | 226 On the Passionality of Exile in Medieval Kabbalah: An Invitation to Historicize Contemporary Religious and Public Discourses on Homelessness Jeremy Phillip Brown | 250 Part III: Theological Insights for Homeless Ministries Wounds of Love: Spiritual Care and Homelessness in the Streets of Seattle Paul Houston Blankenship | 277 Making Spirits Whole: Homeless Ministries as a Tool for Integral Development María Teresa Dávila | 297 “And I Saw Googleville Descend from Heaven”: Reading the New Jerusalem in Gentrified Latinx Communities of Silicon Valley Roberto Mata | 316 Offensive Wisdom: Homeless Neighbors, Bible Interpretation, and the Abode of God in Washington, D.C. Sathianathan Clarke | 331 Acknowledgments | 351 List of Contributors | 353 Index | 357

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Book SynopsisThis is a story about self-transportation, about growing up on one's own as a product of contemporary America, and about how to become a contributing adult in society. Here, Donald Morrill presents the day-to-day lives of seven young men, who for various reasons have become homeless.

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Book SynopsisThe increasing scope of child poverty in Canada has been high on the national agenda since at least 1989. This book represents an effort to understand the changes in social policy that normalise the existence of child poverty in a rich society like Canada.Trade Review"The book follows the intellectual history of the welfare state from its modern conceptual beginnings in Rousseau, Smith, Marx and Bentham through its wartime distillations in the works of Lord Beveridge and Leonard Marsh. It rests in the post-centennial struggles between the noble proponents of the welfare state and its market-obsessed enemies. Ismael does pull one rabbit out of the hat by ingeniously charting the ideological perspectives of liberal individualism, ethical liberalism and social democratic liberalism as they relate to the nature of society, human nature and the nature of child poverty. She helpfully circles back later to chart the same axes but with particular attention to welfare benefits." John Stapleton, Literary Review of Canada, April 2007"This is an interesting book for anyone interested in social policy and the discourses that justify and support policy decisions. Focused on early childhood, Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State is also of interest to advocates for early childhood with her examination of the complex relationship between the social problem of child poverty and federal and provincial social policies." Enid Elliot, Policy and Practice in Education, Vol. 13, Nos 1,2, 2007Table of ContentsThe Problem of Child Poverty in Canada; The Canadian Welfare State and the Growth of Entitlement; The Residual State and the Mobilisation of Charity; Child Poverty and Changing Federal Policy; Social Policy Reform and the Normalisation of Child Poverty; Notes; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences.Trade Review“This impressive collection of essays on vagrancy, homelessness, and poverty has truly global historical dimensions. It covers seven centuries and five continents, has a superb introductory overview, and is comparative social history at its best. It deserves to have a wide readership.”“This book will serve as an index of the multivalent nature of current work in social history, literature, and postcolonial studies in vagrancy and homelessness. At the very least, the book provides an indispensible classroom textbook on poverty and vagrancy from a historical perspective.” * Enterprise & Society *

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Book SynopsisDeirdre O Callaghan was born in Co Cork, Ireland. Having finished her studies in Ireland she moved to London in the early 90s. One of the original Dazed & Confused magazine team, she remained on the staff for five years before concentrating on her freelance career working mainly within the music industry, shooting bands and album artwork for all the major record labels. Hide That Can won two major book awards, at Rencontres de la Photographie D'Arles 2003 and the 19th annual ICP Infinity Awards winner.

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Book SynopsisSacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies,Trade Review"Creative, hopeful, audacious. Here is a book that the city building professions have been, unknowingly, waiting for. Transcending technical and policy ‘fixes’, this book addresses the cultural and spiritual dimensions of shaping cities as if people, land, and nature were sacred. An impressive, pluriversal collection of essays, asking arguably THE most important question of our era: what will it take to build seven generation cities?" Leonie Sandercock, FRSC, Professor in Community Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada"Sacred Civics offers a forward-looking framework that re-imagines what our cities can be if we change our mindset to a more relational one. Through the voices of scholars and practitioners, the book gives a blueprint for how to put into practice the transformative ideas and principles so well articulated here. A wonderful achievement."Sheila R. Foster, Professor at Georgetown University, USA"The old metaphors for cities have run dry. Cities as machines or technologies or mechanisms aren’t getting us anywhere. They aren't computers…they aren’t smart. But they are systems that are built and managed by communities of humans and their non-human allies. As such, the values that we bear in mind as we do the work of city-ing matters. The work that we do together matters. It should be seen as sacred. Even the act of figuring out what this means is something that we should do together, and as such is a sacred process. This book ties many of the relevant threads together into the pattern we need for doing the work of cities in the 21st century. It liberates us from the mechanistic models of the past. It liberates us to figure out what's next for cities. Those of us who work to build just cities and communities need this book."Nigel Jacob, Co-Chair / Co-Founder, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, USA"Nature and the sacred have long been banished from the city. Yet can cities become the site of wisdom, wholeness, and healing? This is the urgent question this unique and wonderfully creative volume tackles by weaving together indigenous ontologies, the relational turn in urban studies, and decoloniality to persuasively develop the principles of "sacred civics" and "seven-generation cities" as the foundation for a substantial rethinking of city building and the democratization of city futures. Chung-Tiam-Fook, Agyeman, and Engle have assembled a truly outstanding and diverse group of indigenous and nonindigenous writers and artists, including some of today’s leading scholars in urban studies, to offer us a cogent framework of urban design as a praxis for the just co-existence of all within a living cosmos. Their call for a relational accountability for the urban worlds we design, grounded on a renewed Earth spirituality and a paradigm of interdependence and care, couldn’t be timelier. Along the way, readers are invited to inspiring and rigorous analyses on the implications of such rethinking for commons, property, governance, nature, and the economy. The book will be of great value to urban planners and designers as well as to scholars and students in indigenous and decolonial studies and those concerned with urban natures, transitions, pluriversality, and the sacred." Arturo Escobar, Arturo Escobar, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of North Carolina, USA"Cities need big ideas to fill small spaces. This book reveals how life's details might better correspond with life's broader sources to create healthier urban futures. I am impressed with the rich and varied angles of vision found in Sacred Civics. The book is practical and poetic. It cultivates hope even as it recognizes the significant challenges we face."John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Imagine Shaping Cities as if People, Land, and Nature Were Sacred; 2 Awakening Seven Generation Cities; PART I Space; 3 Honouring the Sacred in Cities: Indigenous Teachings for City Building; 4 The Black Commons: A Framework for Recognition, Reconciliation, Reparations; 5 (Un)situated Improvisation; 6 Co-creating the Cities We Deserve through Indigenous Knowledge; PART II Time; 7 Unsettling the Coloniality of Foresight; 8 Inhabiting the Edge; 9 Reconciling Relationships with the Land through Land Acknowledgements; 10 Urban Planning Oscillations: Seeking a Tongan Way before and after the 2006 Riots; PART III Agency; 11 Social Infrastructure for Our Times: Building Participatory Systems that Value the Creativity of Everyone; 12 The Ceremony of Reclaiming Agency through Wonder; 13 Feminist, Antiracist Values for Climate Justice: Moving beyond Climate Isolationism; PART IV Togetherness; 14 Participatory Futures: Reimagining the City Together; 15 Basque Civics; 16 Commons Economies in Action: Mutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems; 17 Radicle Civics—Unconstituting Society: Building 21st-Century Civic Infrastructures

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Book Synopsis Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes how governments on both sides of the Atlantic entrenched racial and ethnic divisions through manipulation of the planning and design of the built environment.Based on interviews, never-before-seen documents, and field work carried out in Belfast, Miami, Washington DC, and New York City, this book shows how the planning and design of our streets and communities impacts the physical, mental, social, economic, political and environmental well-being of communities. Tim Cunningham, an urban scholar and human rights advocate, reveals how the British Army set about reconfiguring the urban fabric of Belfast as part of a counter-insurgency strategy in the 1970s that was to have profound consequences. By integrating colonial design principles into urban planning and architecture processes, racial and sectarian boundaries were enshrined in concrete. The outcome was that patterns of inequality and spatial deprivation were compounded as highway routing, street design, and the location of housing developments were used to further segregationist objectives. A global genealogy of segregation, the text highlights the real-life walls that cleave communities along ethnic and political linesâand urban designers and developersâ role in erecting them.This book is ideal reading for courses in urban studies, community development, geography, conflict, architecture, human rights, Irish Studies, and city planning.

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Book SynopsisThis book includes fieldwork from five continents and demonstrates the breadth of techniques used by environmental criminologists to understand crime.Environmental criminologists seek to understand crime within the physical, and even digital, contexts where it occurs believing that crime occurs when people converge in time and space and that the environment impacts the opportunity for crime. Understanding the environment aids the researcher in answering an essential question: what can be done to alter the place to prevent or reduce crime? However, to understand complex environmental influences, researchers need to engage in fieldwork. Fieldwork involves researchers entering the environment they are studying to observe, listen, and experience the surroundings in a way that influences their understanding of the place and people in the environment. This book highlights the broad array of crime types from package theft in the suburbs to poaching in the Nile basin that eTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Provoked poachers? Applying a situational precipitator framework to examine the nexus between human- wildlife conflict, retaliatory killings, and poaching 2. When a loved one is on community supervision: the crime controller strategies used by ‘PoPPs’ (parents/ partners/ peers of probationers and parolees) 3. Putting qualitative methodology in perspective: reflections on the relevance of fieldwork into the field of Environmental Criminology 4. Exploring the influence of daily microroutines on residential guardianship and monitoring patterns 5. Yelping about a good time: casino popularity and crime 6. Porch pirates: examining unattended package theft through crime script analysis 7. Fieldwork protocol as a safety inventory tool in public places

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Book SynopsisThis book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning, Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups, market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured.The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns, revealing challenges as London''s public spaces are designed, regulated and lived. Through in-depth research, Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies, the realisation of visual priorities, and uneven relations between private interests, public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities.This work is inteTrade Review"Ed Wall takes us on an illuminating journey into the planning offices, pavements and image platforms that shape the redevelopment of central London at the turn of the millennium.Contesting Public Spacesis a rich compilation of the speculations, strategies and struggles that produce public life. Its vital details reveal the emergence of exclusive, ornamental and securitised forms that bypass the interpretive possibilities of the commons, asking us to reconsider the very role of planning itself."Suzanne Hall, Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics, Cities Programme"At a time when designers of the built environment are searching for new approaches aimed at producing more just and equitable places in the city, Wall’s exploration of the politics of public space, outlining the global to hyperlocal tensions of public space acquisition, making, and ornament, force us to lean into architecture and its allied design disciplines as a political practice. This is crucial, and now timely, if designers are truly concerned and wish to do something about the erosion of society’s rights to the city and for who, including who decides and designs, whose behavior and activity is accepted, and who is allowed to express their publicness fully."Toni L. Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Founder of Urban American City"Contesting Public Spaces considers the changes which have taken place in three London locations - Paddington Basin, Trafalgar Square and Elephant & Castle (Market) - as a result of large scale regeneration. It leaves the reader with much to ponder about how public our public spaces really are and if more will transition to become privately managed."Ed Wall, The London SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Contesting public spaces, 1. Social and spatial relations, 2. Making and taking, 3. Place as property, 4. Ornaments and images, 5. Approaches to public space, Conclusions, Epilogue: Three propositions

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The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use.For housing to be provided as a human need, land must be recognised as a common right.Property, Planning and Protest is a compelling new investigation into public opposition to housing and real estate development. Its innovative materialist approach is grounded in the political economy of land value, and it recognises the conflict between communities and real estate capital as a struggle over land and property rights. Property, Planning and Protest is about a social movement struggling for democratic representation in land-use decisions. The amenity groups it describes champion a democratic plan-led system that allocates land for social and environmental goals. Situating this movement in a history of land reform and common rights, this book sets out a persuasive new vision of democratic planning and affordable housing for all.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses key issues in housing policy through the lens of the philosophical concepts that underpin them. It is intended to be an introduction to philosophical subjects and how they relate to key housing issues and deals with the concepts with enough rigour and depth to be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students and teachers. Both practitioners in the housing sector and academics researching housing-related subjects often use terms such as fairness', social justice', tenure', property', home' and others as if there is a single agreed meaning for these terms. But these terms can be highly contested and there are multiple viewpoints for each of them that could change how we approach them, and how we therefore create, interpret and implement policies and procedures. This book aims to introduce certain concepts and provide guidance and stimulate thinking around how they make an impact on real-world policy. Each section opens with a relevant case study designedTable of ContentsIntroduction: Housing is a practical issue, what does philosophy matter? 1. Why can’t we all just agree that housing is a good thing, and that the government should provide it? 2. Why do we need the State anyway? 3. Why does the same house sell for more, just because it’s in London? 4. Why are there homeless people in a rich, modern country like a UK? 5. Why can’t I burn my house down, if I feel like it? 6. What if the State really does know best? 7. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book is a practitioner’s guide to sustainable development, laying out strategies for attracting investment for communities and their partners. It is aimed at sustainable development practitioners, including government agencies, financiers, developers, lawyers and engineers.Trade Review"Saskia’s study of what works when investing in sustainable energy in remote and Indigenous communities will be a great boon to both those communities and potential investors. The text makes fascinating reading. Her conceptual tool, the Sustainable Development Proposition, makes application of that knowledge a little easier in practice." Stephen Keim SC, Barrister-at-Law, recipient of the Law Council of Australia’s 2020 President’s Award and recipient of the Human Rights Medal, 2009, by the Australian Human Rights Commission. "The tools in this book will ensure that your return on investment goes beyond a monetary return. You will have a sound basis to expect that your investments, and the partnerships that are formed with communities, are building capacity at the local level, and enhancing connectivity and opportunities with the broader economy in a way that is, dare I say, sustainable in perpetuity." Craig Cowled, Engineer, Researcher, Educator, Worimi man."Saskia Vanderbent has provided a comprehensive insight into the diverse energy challenges being confronted globally and how communities are moving to address them. This prescient perspective takes its currency in the present circumstances facing the world." Allan Fife OAM, Chief Investment Officer, Fife Capital.Table of Contents1. The Sustainable Investment Market 2. Sustainable environment 3. Sustainable governance 4. Sustainable economy 5. Sustainable technology 6. Case studies 7. Attracting Investment 8. Sustainable Community Investment Indicators (SCIIs) 9. Hypothetical case studies 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry. Using the UK housing sector as a case study, Mike Siebert applies a Systems Thinking approach to tackling some of the shared ''Wicked Problems'' faced by an industry that urgently needs to boost its productivity levels, build more sustainably and affordably, and generally improve its working practices.In an accessible and easy to read style, Siebert challenges the overall decision making and problem-solving approach adopted by the industry and seeks to put Systems Thinking front and centre to consider the core issues from multiple perspectives. Initially outlining the key stakeholders and the drivers and barriers to change, he then introduces Systems Thinking and explains using numerous examples of known issues what this approach could achieve. His central aim is tTable of ContentsPart I - What are we trying to do; What’s stopping us?; How could we approach it differentlyChapter 1 – Defining the SectorsChapter 2 – Drivers for Change: The government perspective on what the industry needs to doChapter 3 – Barriers to Change: The industry perspective on what the government needs to understandChapter 4 – The Methodology for Change Part II - What ‘approaching it differently’ could achieveChapter 5 – Political Intervention: pushing the right buttons at the right timeChapter 6 – Industry Intervention: changing the message to fit the audienceChapter 7 – The Missing Tools: the tools we need, how to build them, and how to promote themChapter 8 – Applying these tools to solve the Housing Industry’s crisis

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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 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 SynopsisOriginally published in 1986, this book compares and evaluates the effects of converting rental housing into owner occupancy in the USA, the UK and Germany. The evaluation examines the pros and cons of such conversions. The conversion controversy is more than a technical discussion of outcomes of different housing strategies. By viewing tenure conversions as strategies for limiting direct governmental involvement, this comparative evaluation indicates something about the effects not only on housing, but on general social welfare, of such strategies.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1988, Accommodating Inequality provides a basis for a radical re-think of housing policy and provision in Australia from a gender perspective. It explores the way that housing in Australia helped to produce patriarchal family structures and simultaneously contributed to the dependence of women on men. At the time the book was originally published housing policy at a theoretical or research level was less explored. Issues such as marginalisation, poverty and low income, domestic responsibility are discussed in relation to housing. The book raised new questions and challenged old debates and provides a clear framework within which feminist housing policy can be situated.

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