Housing and homelessness Books
University Press of Florida The Archaeology of the Homed and the Unhomed
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.
£60.35
John Wiley & Sons Feeding the Future School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
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£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Feeding the Future School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
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
£105.40
MW - Rutgers University Press Catching a Case Inequality and Fear in New York Citys Child Welfare System
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£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Catching a Case Inequality and Fear in New York Citys Child Welfare System
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£105.40
John Wiley & Sons Home Safe Home Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Violence Against Women and Children
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
£26.99
New York University Press Street Kids
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
£23.74
University of Minnesota Press El Paso Local Frontiers At A Global Crossroads
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£19.79
MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Value of Homelessness
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
£19.94
University of Minnesota Press DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services
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
£61.20
Ohio University Press A Bed Called Home
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 *
£17.99
Duke University Press The Space of Boredom
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
£98.60
Duke University Press The Space of Boredom
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
£25.19
Fordham University Press Affliction
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
£20.69
Fordham University Press Neighborhood Success Stories
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
£19.94
Fordham University Press The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin
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
£102.60
Fordham University Press The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin
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
£26.99
Fordham University Press Land of Stark Contrasts
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
£102.60
Fordham University Press Land of Stark Contrasts
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
£27.90
Ohio University Press Cast Out
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 *
£31.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Metropolitan Preoccupations
Book SynopsisIn this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest. Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the city Offers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the right to the city and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanisms Examines the implications of urban squatting for how we think, research and inhabit the city as a site of radical social transformation Challenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in itTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction: Making Radical Urban Politics 1 2 Crisis and Critique 27 3 Resistance and Autonomy 53 4 Antagonism and Repair 86 5 Separation and Renewal 133 6 Capture and Experimentation 164 7 Conclusion: “Der Kampf geht weiter” 196 References 209 Index 231
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Metropolitan Preoccupations The Spatial Politics
Book SynopsisIn this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction: Making Radical Urban Politics 1 2 Crisis and Critique 27 3 Resistance and Autonomy 53 4 Antagonism and Repair 86 5 Separation and Renewal 133 6 Capture and Experimentation 164 7 Conclusion: “Der Kampf geht weiter” 196 References 209 Index 231
£23.74
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Swept Up Lives
Book SynopsisUtilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding of urban homelessness Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spaces Suggests that different homelessness scenes' develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to the problems faced Trade Review“Overall, this book makes a substantial contribution to research on urban homelessness. It provides a glimpse into a network of emotions relationships, and service provision that is underacknowledged in urban geography.” (The Canadian Geographer, 4 September 2014) "Swept up Lives? lives up toexpectations and delivers a well argued and insightful analysis that progresses established paradigmatic ways of understanding homelessness in the Western world." (UGRG Book Review Series, 19 December 2011) "I cannot praise this book highly enough or hope to do justice to it in a short review. It is a considerable and possibly unprecedented achievement . . . I would recommend that this book be read by everyone who has anything to do with homelessness, and by every policy work, every politician, and every academic analyst of the policy process." (The Geographical Journal, 2011) "A compelling narrative, moving from 'the street' to structure and back again, to argue that more attention needs to be paid to the neoliberalist welfare state. The authors highlight examples of hope and caring, providing a critical but optimistic view of what can be done by individuals, institutions, and governing bodies. A must read for researchers and students interested in understanding not only homelessness, but also the complexities of governance.’ —Lois M. Takahashi, University of California, Los Angeles ‘Challenging theories of urban revanchism that deny homeless people agency and neglect the complexities of today’s welfare state, Swept Up Lives provides a sharp conceptual corrective and rich portrayal of geographies of homelessness in Britain. Detailed ethnographies and institutional analysis offer a window on homeless subjectivities and voluntary organizations as spaces of caring and active citizenship. I highly recommend this book.’ —Jennifer Wolch, University of California, Berkeley ‘A well crafted, insightful and timely book that overturns existing orthodoxies, exploring the experience of homelessness in the UK and providing a thought-provoking portrayal of the human face of homelessness.’ —Christine Milligan, Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsFigures and Tables vi Series Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations x 1 Introduction: Re-envisioning the Homeless City 1 2 From Neoliberalization to Postsecularism 22 3 Tactics and Performativities in the Homeless City 61 4 'He's Not Homeless, He Shouldn't Have Any Food': Outdoor Relief in a Postsecular Age 92 5 'It's Like You Can Almost Be Normal Again': Refuge and Resource in Britain's Day Centres 117 6 'It's Been a Tough Night, Huh?' Hopelessness (and Hope) in Britain's Homeless Hostels 147 7 Big City Blues: Uneven Geographies of Provision in the Homeless City 181 8 On the Margins of the Homeless City: Caring for Homeless People in Rural Areas 211 9 Conclusions 241 References 255 Index 274
£23.74
Johns Hopkins University Press The Housing Bomb
Book SynopsisThe housing bomb is ticking, and our choice is clear-change our approach or feel the blast.Trade ReviewThe Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society explores common fallacies in thinking about housing and offers many alternatives, and is a pick for any social issues collection, especially those strong in urban research. Midwest Book Review The Housing Bomb is an eloquent expose of the social and environmental ills associated with western housing trends. -- Martin Brueckner Pacific Conservation Biology Any reader with an interest in economics, sustainable business, and ecology will find this book well worth reading and debating. -- Rick Docksai World Future SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Household Dynamics and Their Contribution to the Housing Bomb2. How Home Ownership Both Emancipates and Enslaves Us3. "Housaholism" in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem4. Household Dynamics and Giant Panda Conservation5. Defusing the Housing Bomb with Your House6. Individual and Local Strategies for Defusing the Housing Bomb7. Large-Scale Strategies for Defusing the Housing BombConclusionNotesIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Starving the Dream
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£33.75
Temple University Press,U.S. Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin
Book SynopsisAn international account of homelessness, comparing Berlin and Los Angeles and the possibility of exiting homelessness in each cityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Commonly Used Abbreviations 1 Different Welfare Regimes, Similar Outcomes? The Impact of Public Policy on Homeless People's Exit Chances in Berlin and Los Angeles 2 Homeless Spaces, Homeless Lives: Using Ethnography to Assess Homeless People's Life Courses and Exit Chances in Berlin 3 Not Allowed: Legal Exclusion, Human Rights, and Global Capital 4 Not Wanted: Containment, Warehousing, and Service Exclusion 5 Not Needed: Market Exclusion, Exit Strategies, and the Specter of Neoliberalism 6 Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People: Comparative Perspective Postscript Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Respondents in Berlin Appendix 2: Key Informants Notes References Index
£53.55
Temple University Press,U.S. Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin
Book SynopsisLos Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed homeless capitals for having the largest homeless populations of their respective countries. In Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin, Jurgen von Mahs provides an illuminating comparative analysis of the impact of social welfare policy on homelessness in these cities. He addresses the opportunity of people to overcome-or exit-homelessness and shows why Berlin, despite its considerable social and economic investment for assisting its homeless, has been almost as unsuccessful as Los Angeles. Drawing on fascinating ethnographic insights, von Mahs shows how homeless people in both cities face sociospatial exclusion-legal displacement for criminal activities, poor shelters in impoverished neighborhoods, as well as market barriers that restrict reintegration. Providing a necessary wake-up call, Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin addresses the critical public policy issues that can produce effective services to improve homeleTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Commonly Used Abbreviations 1 Different Welfare Regimes, Similar Outcomes? The Impact of Public Policy on Homeless People's Exit Chances in Berlin and Los Angeles 2 Homeless Spaces, Homeless Lives: Using Ethnography to Assess Homeless People's Life Courses and Exit Chances in Berlin 3 Not Allowed: Legal Exclusion, Human Rights, and Global Capital 4 Not Wanted: Containment, Warehousing, and Service Exclusion 5 Not Needed: Market Exclusion, Exit Strategies, and the Specter of Neoliberalism 6 Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People: Comparative Perspective Postscript Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Respondents in Berlin Appendix 2: Key Informants Notes References Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Local Protests Global Movements
Book SynopsisHow San Francisco's housing protest movements help us understand global mobilizationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Situating San Francisco 2 Constructing San Francisco’s Growth Control and Housing Rights Movements 3 A Framework for the Analysis of Urban Movements 4 Dot-com Boom and Struggles in the Mission 5 The Public-Private Partnership: The Case of Mission Bay 6 Urban Movements and the Question of Urban Governance 7 Local and Global Implications of San Francisco NotesReferencesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. The War on Slums in the Southwest
Book Synopsis In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965--and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954. Despite being a region where conservative politics has ruled, these Southwestern cities often handled population growth, urban planning, and economic development in ways that closely followed the national account of efforts to eliminate slums and provide public housing for the needy. The War on Slums in the Southwest therefore corrects some misconceptions about the role of slum clearance and public housing in this region as Fairbanks integrates urban policy into the larger understanding of federal and state-based housing policies. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Cities in the Southwest or Southwestern Cities? 2 The Public Housing Movement in the Southwest: Cities Battle the Slums before 1937 3 Southwestern Cities, Slum Clearance, and the First Permanent Public Housing Program 4 From World War II to the Housing Act of 1949: A Moratorium on Slum Clearance and Public Housing for Low-Income Citizens 5 The Solution Becomes a Problem: The Decline of the Public Housing Movement after the Housing Act of 1949 6 From Urban Redevelopment to Urban Renewal in the Southwest Epilogue: Our War on Poverty, Not Yours on Slums Appendix A: Social Scientists and the Changing Discourse on Slums and Poverty: A Brief Note Appendix B: Public Housing Built in San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, and Dallas, 1935–1965 Appendix C: Occupation of Initial Tenants of Cuney Homes Public Housing in Houston Appendix D: Total Number of Public Housing Units Built by Selected Cities by 1967 Notes Index
£66.60
University of Toronto Press The Housing and Economic Experiences of
Book SynopsisThe Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent.Trade Review'This compilation is an example of how comparative research can further advance our knowledge and understanding of structural inequality in place making.' -- Regina Serpa Housing Studies vol 31:02:2016 'This book is an excellent resource to learn about past and current understandings of the processes through which immigrants integrate into the housing markets and economies of the cities in the US and Canada.' -- Craig E. Jones Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol 24:01:2015Table of ContentsPreface (Audrey Kobayashi) Introduction 1. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in Canada and the United States (Wei Li and Carlos Teixeira) Part One: The Housing Experiences of Immigrants Introduction to Part One: The Housing Experiences of Immigrants (Carlos Teixeira) 2. Home Ownership among Immigrants in Canada and the United States: Similarities and Differences (Joe T. Darden) 3. Cohort Progress toward Household Formation and Homeownership: A Comparison of Immigrant Racialized Minority Groups in Canada and the United States (Michael Haan and Zhou Yu) 4. How Are Sri Lankan Tamils Doing in Toronto's Housing Markets? A Comparative Study of the Refugee Claimants and the Family Class Migrants (Sutama Ghosh) 5. A Two-Sided Question: The Negative and Positive Impacts of Gentrification on Portuguese Residents in West-Central Toronto (Robert A. Murdie and Carlos Teixeira) 6. The Good, the Bad and the Suburban: Tracing North American Theoretical Debates about Ethnic Enclaves, Ethnic Suburbs & Housing Preference (Virpal Kataure and Margaret Walton-Roberts) 7. Housing Experiences and Trajectories among Ethnoburban Chinese in Los Angeles: Achieving Chinese Immigrants' American Dream (Wan Yu) Part Two: The Economic Experiences of Immigrants Introduction to Part Two: Economic Experiences of Immigrants in Canada and the United States (John Miron) 8. The Colour of Money Redux: Immigrant/Ethnic Earnings Disparity in Canada 1991-2006 (Krishna Pendakur and Ravi Pendakur) 9. Immigrant Underemployment in the US Urban Labor Markets (Tetiana Lysenko and Qingfang Wang) 10. The Latino Commercial Landscape and Evolving Hispanic Immigrant Population in Two Midwestern Metropolitan Areas (Alex Oberle) 11. Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Washington Metropolitan Area: Opportunities and Challenges Facing Ethnic Minorities (Elizabeth Chacko and Marie Price) 12. Financing Immigrant Small Businesses in the US and Canada (Wei Li and Lucia Lo) Conclusion 13. Immigrant Experiences and Integration Trajectories in North American Cities: An Overview and Commentary on Themes and Concepts (John W. Frazier)
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Bristol University Press Accommodating Difference
Book SynopsisThis important book explores the impact of different forms of policy and practice on the lives of vulnerable people, arguing for a flexible policy approach that places people in control of their own lives and creates housing options that effectively improve the well-being of those who live in them.Trade Review"Accommodating Difference is a much-needed addition to the evolving and unsettled discussion of supportive housing. This book is a critical and thoughtful read of policy and practice, which through its examples helps us to see how supportive housing can increase subjective well-being and maintain dignity." Janet Smith, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA“David Clapham’s work shines a light on a relatively under-researched housing topic. The need to understand different ways of seeing the world is crucial if we are to provide good quality supported housing for vulnerable people and to embrace and accommodate difference.” Jo Richardson, Professor of Housing and Social Research, De Montfort University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; Models of supported housing; Difference and well-being; Homes; Neighbourhoods; Housing and support in Britain and Sweden; Supported housing for older people; Supported housing for homeless people; Supported housing for disabled people; Conclusion.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Accommodating Difference
Book SynopsisThis important book explores the impact of different forms of policy and practice on the lives of vulnerable people, arguing for a flexible policy approach that places people in control of their own lives and creates housing options that effectively improve the well-being of those who live in them.Trade Review"Accommodating Difference is a much-needed addition to the evolving and unsettled discussion of supportive housing. This book is a critical and thoughtful read of policy and practice, which through its examples helps us to see how supportive housing can increase subjective well-being and maintain dignity." Janet Smith, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA“David Clapham’s work shines a light on a relatively under-researched housing topic. The need to understand different ways of seeing the world is crucial if we are to provide good quality supported housing for vulnerable people and to embrace and accommodate difference.” Jo Richardson, Professor of Housing and Social Research, De Montfort University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; Models of supported housing; Difference and well-being; Homes; Neighbourhoods; Housing and support in Britain and Sweden; Supported housing for older people; Supported housing for homeless people; Supported housing for disabled people; Conclusion.
£26.59
Bristol University Press Finance for Housing
Book SynopsisIn this much-needed text, current housing finance issues (and their history) are linked with broader social policy and political themes. It covers the finance of building and refurbishment, managing and maintaining property for all the different tenures and discusses whether current arrangements are sustainable.Trade Review"A much needed up-to-date resource for housing students." Victoria Hiscocks, Cardiff Metropolitan University"This book is well-written, well-structred and easy to engage with as a result." Dr Stuart Cameron, The Univeristy of Bolton."Finance for Housing... is a mine of useful information and argument that will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about the housing system, and so is highly recommended" - Red Brick blog"a clear guide to understanding the continuing crisis in the UK housing sector and the Coalition's policies in particular...highly recommended" Dexter Whitfield, The Spokesman issue 123"Frequently provocative and is likely to challenge many of its intended readership’s views...an accessible and thought provoking account of finance for housing policies." People, Place and Policy“This timely book underlines why housing has moved from the periphery to the centre of social policy debates. I hope that it will be read by policy-makers and activists as well as students and academics.” Ruth Lister, Emeritus Professor Loughborough University, and member of the House of Lords"The test of a civilised society is that everyone should have access to a decent home. In the post-war years a huge house building programme for local authorities was set up and this met a real need. Today we need a similar programme which would create jobs and help us to escape from the agony of austerity." Tony Benn, former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister"An informative book about housing policy in the UK." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.Table of ContentsPart One: Overview; Political choices and housing finance; The global financial crisis and the UK government’s role; Part Two: Tenure; Local authority general housing services and building work; Owner-occupation; The changing fortunes of council housing; Housing associations; The private rented sector; Part Three: Issues with housing costs; ‘Marginal’ owner occupation; A variety of rents; Paying for housing with help from housing benefits; Part Four: Discussion; Is our housing system sustainable?.
£30.39
Bristol University Press Finance for Housing
Book SynopsisIn this much-needed text, current housing finance issues (and their history) are linked with broader social policy and political themes. It covers the finance of building and refurbishment, managing and maintaining property for all the different tenures and discusses whether current arrangements are sustainable.Trade Review"A much needed up-to-date resource for housing students." Victoria Hiscocks, Cardiff Metropolitan University"This book is well-written, well-structred and easy to engage with as a result." Dr Stuart Cameron, The Univeristy of Bolton."Finance for Housing... is a mine of useful information and argument that will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about the housing system, and so is highly recommended" - Red Brick blog"a clear guide to understanding the continuing crisis in the UK housing sector and the Coalition's policies in particular...highly recommended" Dexter Whitfield, The Spokesman issue 123"Frequently provocative and is likely to challenge many of its intended readership’s views...an accessible and thought provoking account of finance for housing policies." People, Place and Policy“This timely book underlines why housing has moved from the periphery to the centre of social policy debates. I hope that it will be read by policy-makers and activists as well as students and academics.” Ruth Lister, Emeritus Professor Loughborough University, and member of the House of Lords"The test of a civilised society is that everyone should have access to a decent home. In the post-war years a huge house building programme for local authorities was set up and this met a real need. Today we need a similar programme which would create jobs and help us to escape from the agony of austerity." Tony Benn, former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister"An informative book about housing policy in the UK." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.Table of ContentsPart One: Overview; Political choices and housing finance; The global financial crisis and the UK government’s role; Part Two: Tenure; Local authority general housing services and building work; Owner-occupation; The changing fortunes of council housing; Housing associations; The private rented sector; Part Three: Issues with housing costs; ‘Marginal’ owner occupation; A variety of rents; Paying for housing with help from housing benefits; Part Four: Discussion; Is our housing system sustainable?.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Renewing Europes Housing
Book SynopsisExpert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of public and private sectors, form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe.Trade Review"The strength of the book is...the indisputable value as a handbook on housing renewal that surely will be widely used and cited." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment"Renewing Europe's Housing, edited by Richard Turckington and Christopher Watson, re-opens a crucial debate on housing policies and practices in the face of a new housing crisis that characterizes many European countries in different ways." Council for European Studies"This text is invaluable to anyone interested in European housing or housing renewal generally." People, Place and Policy"This new account of the challenges presented by an ageing housing stock and policy responses across Europe fills a significant gap. It is essential reading for those concerned with the future of housing." Alan Murie, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham“An excellent overview of housing renewal policies across nine European countries, offering a deeper understanding of the barriers to the implementation of more effective and integrated urban renewal policies in different cultures.” Martin Lux, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic"Because of an ageing population and housing stock, housing renewal remains an important challenge in European housing policy. Renewing Europe’s Housing elaborates the way housing renewal is understood and has developed during the last decade in nine widespread European countries. A valuable asset for housing researchers." Prof.Dr. Peter Boelhouwer, Delft University of TechnologyTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Christopher Watson and Richard Turkington; From physical improvement to holistic renewal: the Danish experience ~ Hedvig Vestergaard; Housing renewal in England ~ Christopher Watson and Richard Turkington; Making new from old in France: urban change through housing renewal in two Parisian districts ~ Claire Lévy-Vroelant and Yankel Fijalkow; Housing and urban renewal in the Netherlands ~ Frank Wassenberg; Estonia: learning through ‘societal experiment’ ~ Katrin Paadam and Liis Ojamäe; Housing and urban renewal: the case of Germany ~ Jürgen Friedrichs, Rolf Müller and Wendelin Strubelt; Housing renewal in Hungary: from socialist non-renovation through individual market actions to area-based public intervention ~ Iván Tosics; From isolated programmes to an integrated approach: the case of La Barceloneta, Spain ~ Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Montse Simó-Solsona; From squatter upgrading to large scale renewal programmes: housing renewal in Turkey ~ Zeynep Gunay, T Kerem Koramaz and A Sule Ozuekren; Changing approaches to policy making in housing renewal ~ Tim Brown and Richard Turkington; Conclusions ~ Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Women Rough Sleepers in Europe
Book SynopsisThis important book reveals a number of truths about women's rough sleeping across Europe and argues for the adoption of effective policy, strategies and services to meet the needs of homeless women, specifically women rough sleepers who are the victims of domestic abuse.Trade Review"The book is an excellent overview of the multiple issues faced by women rough sleepers in Europe, and the barriers faced by homeless women and service providers in seeking appropriate, gender-sensitive solutions." Social Policy & Administration"This compelling review of women's homelessness in Europe provides fresh insights into an enduring problem. The book reveals the challenges homeless women face in a world where liberalist housing market principles prevail." Angela Maye-Banbury, Sheffield Hallam UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; Towards a New Theory of Women’s Homelessness: Social Dysfunction Theory; A European Perspective on Women’s Rough Sleeping; Analysing and Understanding the Problem of Women’s Rough Sleeping: The Women Rough Sleepers Stories; Analysing and Understanding the Problem of Women’s Rough Sleeping: The Service Providers Stories; Explaining Women’s Rough Sleeping; Challenges and Recommendations; Appendix A: Research instruments used in the study.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Poverty Propaganda
Book SynopsisPoverty Propaganda debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty and its prevalence, causes and consequences. In particular, it highlights the role of poverty propaganda' in sustaining class divides in perpetuating poverty and disadvantage in contemporary Britain.Trade Review"An essential guide to poverty in 21st Century Britain. Poverty Propaganda examines how the truth about poverty, its causes and consequences, continue to be hidden behind headlines, stories and images of the feckless undeserving poor." Imogen Tyler, University of Lancaster"Exposes the falsehood of stigmatising through treating people as 'undeserving' at a time when a privileged minority is receiving a lot of 'something for nothing'." Guy Standing, SOAS University of London"Sets out to debunk many of the myths around poverty and benefits in the UK....reveals the extent of ‘poverty propaganda’ and the ideological function this plays in defending successive cuts to social security support. A timely and important book from one of the leading thinkers on poverty in the UK." Ruth Patrick, University of Liverpool“This book makes a significant contribution to making poverty visible, both as an experience for the many people the author has interviewed, and as a theoretical and political problem… With its particular emphasis on experience and empirical evidence, it offers students in particular a useful account of the interests, concerns and debates which have generated poverty propaganda in the UK.” Community Development Journal"This book is a timely opportunity to review our current understandings of poverty and what it means for us as a profession and as radicals..." Critical and Radical Social WorkTable of ContentsIntroduction; Poverty propaganda; Lived realities; Labour markets and ‘poor work’; Class and social immobility; Discrimination, stigma and shame; Poverty propaganda and the (re)production of poverty and privilege; Conclusions.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Housing Politics in the United Kingdom
Book SynopsisAs housing moves up the UK political agenda, Brian Lund uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism to explore the political processes involved in constructing and implementing housing policy and its political consequences.Trade Review"A valuable addition to literature on the development of housing policy in the UK ,incorporating rich insights from political debates that have shaped policy." Alan Murie, university of Birmingham"A well-written, insightful and timely book, highlighting the politics involved in shaping the supply and distribution of housing in the United Kingdom." Peter Somerville, University of LincolnTable of ContentsPreface; Housing and politics; Land politics; Urban renewal: Fencing the cities; Private landlords: ‘Rachman’ or ‘residential property owner’?; A property-owning democracy?; Eclipsing council housing; ‘Bending the ‘third arm’: Politicians and housing associations; Homelessness politics; Devolution: Where's the difference?; Conclusion: What next?.
£71.25
Bristol University Press Housing Politics in the United Kingdom
Book SynopsisAs housing moves up the UK political agenda, Brian Lund uses insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social constructionism to explore the political processes involved in constructing and implementing housing policy and its political consequences.Trade Review"A valuable addition to literature on the development of housing policy in the UK ,incorporating rich insights from political debates that have shaped policy." Alan Murie, university of Birmingham"A well-written, insightful and timely book, highlighting the politics involved in shaping the supply and distribution of housing in the United Kingdom." Peter Somerville, University of LincolnTable of ContentsPreface; Housing and politics; Land politics; Urban renewal: Fencing the cities; Private landlords: ‘Rachman’ or ‘residential property owner’?; A property-owning democracy?; Eclipsing council housing; ‘Bending the ‘third arm’: Politicians and housing associations; Homelessness politics; Devolution: Where's the difference?; Conclusion: What next?.
£26.59
Bristol University Press Understanding Housing Policy
Book SynopsisFocusing on principles and theory and their application in the process of constructing housing policy, with boxed examples and case studies throughout, this fully revised 3rd edition addresses the range of socio-economic factors that have influenced UK housing policy in recent years.Trade Review"...this is a refreshing and different contribution to the literature. It clearly will prove of considerable value as an introductory text book and it maybe more accessible to undergraduates than the other books available are." Housing Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 1, 2007"Understanding Housing Policy is an insightful exploration of contemporary housing problems and an excellent introduction to the subject." Social Policy, Vol. 36 (4) - 2007"It should be on the bookshelf of anyone, novice or veteran, interested in UK housing policy, and will be essential for undergraduate and graduate students specialising in the area." Joe Finnerty, University of Cork, Housing Studies journal (review of 2nd ed)"An excellent historical and theoretical review of housing policy: thoughtful, well informed, critical and up to date." Chris Paris, Professor of Housing Studies, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland“An excellent update that puts current housing policy into an historical context. This will be very helpful to my students.” Alan Winter, Associate Professor of Housing, London South Bank UniversityTable of ContentsUnderstanding Housing Policy; Housing policy: continuity and change; Governing housing; Comparative housing policy; Need, demand and supply; ‘Affordable’ housing; Homelessness; Decent and sustainable homes; Neighbourhood deprivation; Housing and social justice; Conclusion: Let’s be builders.
£75.99
Bristol University Press The Right to Buy
Book SynopsisIn The Right to Buy, Alan Murie provides an authoritative account of the origins, development and impact of the policy across the UK and proposals for its extension in England (and decisions to end it in Scotland and Wales).Trade Review"In the context of fast-moving change, [this] book provides a welcome and objective policy analysis." LSE Review of Books"Alan Murie is the UK expert on the Right to Buy. He provides an in-depth and accessible assessment of the policy, its past, present and future, informed not least by his work in this area over the last 35 years." Peter Williams, University of Cambridge"Students and policy makers alike will enjoy this concise and research based review of one of the most widely discussed housing policies of the past 50 years from the leading author on the topic." David Mullins, University of Birmingham“Professor Alan Murie’s latest book on the right to buy has the hallmarks of someone who has been studying the subject for a long time and knows it to a very fine level of detail, but who is still able to offer new insights and perspectives.” People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Selling public housing: Precursors and preconditions; The Right to Buy 1980-2015; Right to Buy: Statistics and impact; A policy commentary; The next phase: Extending the right to buy in England; Conclusions: The right to buy and beyond.
£11.99
Bristol University Press Whose Housing Crisis
Book SynopsisReconceiving the current housing crisis in England as a `wicked' problem, this book situates the crisis in a broader range of socio-economic issues and calls for a change in how housing is produced and consumed.Trade Review“At last, a book that changes the terms of the great housing debate and challenges the received political wisdom of the main political parties.” Peter Hetherington, The Guardian.“This forceful, informed and accessible book makes the housing crisis everyone’s problem. The UK’s dysfunctional relationship with housing has seeped into the pores of all areas of society and until the pervasive nature of this crisis is grasped, there will be no plausible escape.” Brett Christophers, Uppsala UniversityTable of Contents1. The housing crisis 2. A wicked problem 3. Housing's economic context 4. Local pathways to crisis 5. Whose housing crisis? 6. An exit strategy
£75.99
Bristol University Press Whose Housing Crisis
Book SynopsisReconceiving the current housing crisis in England as a wicked' problem, this book situates the crisis in a broader range of socio-economic issues and calls for a change in how housing is produced and consumed.Trade Review“At last, a book that changes the terms of the great housing debate and challenges the received political wisdom of the main political parties.” Peter Hetherington, The Guardian.“This forceful, informed and accessible book makes the housing crisis everyone’s problem. The UK’s dysfunctional relationship with housing has seeped into the pores of all areas of society and until the pervasive nature of this crisis is grasped, there will be no plausible escape.” Brett Christophers, Uppsala UniversityTable of Contents1. The housing crisis 2. A wicked problem 3. Housing's economic context 4. Local pathways to crisis 5. Whose housing crisis? 6. An exit strategy
£22.79
Policy Press The Divisive State of Social Policy
Book SynopsisFew aspects of austerity politics have been as divisive as the `Bedroom Tax'. This book provides a vivid and authoritative assessment of the impact of social housing reform on tenants and society, using personal stories from one estate to explore its connections to issues including housing precarity, poverty and damage to social networks.Trade Review“Focussing on the so called 'bedroom tax' this book aptly exposes the particularly cruel turn in recent policies directed towards those with the least. The book shows very clearly how grossly damaging, unnecessary and unfair policies can be completely misrepresented as necessary, just and fair.” Tracy Shildrick, Newcastle UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: the repositioning of social housing and welfare provision Life without state-supported housing Living in a state of insecurity Social housing insecurity as policy and ideology Divisive social policy: the competition for physical and symbolic resources Community and belonging Housing precarity and advanced marginality in the UK
£75.99
Bristol University Press Reimagining Homelessness
Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Bringing to light the most contemporary research, policy and practice, this book presents stark evidence from Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine the root causes of homelessness and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Rediscovering Homelessness; Responding to Homelessness; Reacting to Homelessness; Reimagining Homelessness; Conclusion.
£12.34
Bristol University Press Housing Shock
Book SynopsisHearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context and examines its origins in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Using real voices and stories, he shows how the crisis is having profound impacts on equality, wellbeing and health.Table of ContentsForeword: Special Rapporteur for Housing ~ Leilani Farhi; Introduction: a new housing crisis; Generation Rent; Homelessness: the most extreme inequality; The normalisation of homelessness; Working for social justice: community, activism and academia; The neoliberal roots of the current crisis; The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs; Inequality and financialisation; The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation; The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all; The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all; A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Housing Shock
Book SynopsisHearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context and examines its origins in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Using real voices and stories, he shows how the crisis is having profound impacts on equality, wellbeing and health.Table of ContentsForeword: Special Rapporteur for Housing ~ Leilani Farhi; Introduction: a new housing crisis; Generation Rent; Homelessness: the most extreme inequality; The normalisation of homelessness; Working for social justice: community, activism and academia; The neoliberal roots of the current crisis; The new waves of financialisation: vultures and REITs; Inequality and financialisation; The lost decade of social and affordable housing: austerity and marketisation; The people push back: protests for affordable homes for all; The right to an affordable, secure and decent home for all; A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all.
£22.79
Bristol University Press Private Renting in the Advanced Economies
Book SynopsisThis edited collection analyses recent changes in the private rental housing market, using case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, and assesses the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.Table of Contents1. New Trajectories in Private Rental Housing - Peter A. Kemp 2. Growth and Change: Private Renting in Australia in the 21st Century - Kath Hulse 3. Rental Housing Dynamics and Their Affordability Impact in the United States - Alex Schwartz 4. The Irish Rental Sector and the Post-homeownership Society: Issues and Challenges - Michael Byrne 5. Private Renting in England: Growth, Change and Contestation - Tony Crook and Peter A. Kemp 6. Private Renting in the Netherlands: Set to Grow? - Marietta E.A. Haffner 7. Suppressive Regulation and Lower Political Esteem: Private Renting in Germany at the Beginning of Decline - Stefan Kofner 8. Private Renting in Denmark: Foreign Investors in the Crosshairs - Kath Scanlon 9. Norway: Booming Housing Market and Increasing Small-scale Landlordism - Mary Ann Stamsø 10. Private Rented Markets in Spain and Housing Affordability - Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Teresa Sánchez-Martínez 11. The Short Run Impact of Covid-19 on the Private Rented Sector - Tony Crook 12. Change and Continuity in Private Rental Housing - Peter A. Kemp
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