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Book SynopsisAn estimated 100 million people worldwide are homeless.1.6 billion live in sub-standard housing.But how can such a simple game like football tackle such a complex problem? Mel Young and Peter Barr tell the story of the million homeless people in 70 countries who have taken part in the Homeless World Cup since it was founded in 2003 and the positive impact it has on the players and everyone else involved, including spectators. From refugees to drug addicts, orphans and the poorest of the poor, to homeless people from the world's richest countries, we read about the moving human drama behind the event and find out how a ball can change the world.Home Game provides an insight into the birth of the Homeless World Cup and how it has become such a global phenomenon, by looking at more than just facts. It shows how the power of sport can help excluded people transform their own lives and how the event has transformed attitudes to homelessness.Trade ReviewPraise for The Homeless World Cup:When people have a bad deal in life and things haven't been going their way, one of the ways they can get self-esteem back is through sports. The Homeless World Cup does that, and it also puts on the agenda that homelessness is a global issue. We all love football and we all hate homelessness – it's a no-brainer. Irvine Welsh Novelist and Ambassador for the Homeless World CupAll over the world, we've got to end homelessness. Everyone should have a home. It's a right and not a privilege. People treat the homeless as if they're sub-human. In order to overcome this discrimination, we have to unite against homelessness as we did when we fought apartheid. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, speaking at the Homeless World Cup in Cape Town (2006)The week-long tournament in Cardiff provided an incredible platform: for the players to demonstrate their skill and passion; for the public to engage with the tournament and with the varied debate and discussion that sat alongside football. The tournament generated a huge amount of positive goodwill in Cardiff and beyond, and the work to harness this and take it forward into a positive, lasting legacy, has already begun. MICHAEL SHEEN, Actor and Homeless World Cup ChampionI’m extremely proud to be joining the Homeless World Cup as a Champion. I’m excited to combine my passion for the game alongside the powerful work the Homeless World Cup does. Not only are they raising the issue of homelessness but actively doing something about it. CRISTINA RODLO, Actress and Homeless World Cup ChampionI didn’t think there could be anything better than the World Cup, but here it is: The Homeless World Cup! The only thing better than football in my eyes, is football that helps people. HERO FIENNES TIFFIN, Actor and Homeless World Cup Champion The Homeless World Cup demonstrates the power of sport to bring people together and change lives for the better, something which I saw for myself first-hand when the tournament was held in Glasgow in 2016. The positive effect it had on the players lives and the inspiration they took from it was hard to miss. NICOLA STURGEON, Former First Minister of Scotland

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

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

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Book SynopsisUnderstudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

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Book SynopsisThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver. He looks at the organisation of alternative forms of housing-from Copenhagen's Freetown Christiana to the squats of the Lower East Side-as well as the official response, including the recent criminalisation of squatting, the brutal eviction of squatters and their widespread vilification.Pictured as a way to reimagine and reclaim the city, squatting offers an alternative to housing insecurity, oppressive property speculation and the negative effects of urban regeneration. We must, more than ever, reanimate and remake the urban environment as a site of radical social transformation.Trade ReviewAn encyclopaediac and vital history of a topic which is often overlooked but is invariably at the heart of radical city politics. -- Anna Minton, author of Ground ControlThe Autonomous City is a detailed and sympathetic history of squatting movements in Europe and the United States. In addition, it is a discussion of its meaning in the ever fluctuating meanings of urban living. Part academic treatise and part action-packed history, Vasudevan's text provides the reader with a nuanced look at the nature and meaning of the housing crisis in the capitalist West and the solutions housing occupations can provide. In doing so, he brings in the political, cultural and historical meanings behind the squatters and the communities they occupy and create. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the meaning of housing in modern society. It is also a sort of a guidebook for those tired of waiting for the economic and political systems of their respective nations to resolve the crisis that exists in almost every urban zone and who are willing to take matters into their own collective hands. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *Sweeping research on the surprisingly radical history of occupying abandoned buildings and living in them. -- Lauren Oyler * New Republic *Delving into the history of squatting and radical housing activism, Vasudevan's book traces the ways housing insecurity and affordability crises intertwine with movements to claim and reclaim homes and apartments. -- Patrick Sisson * Curbed *A significant contribution to the written history of squatting movements and struggles to transform the city. It is wide-ranging and well-researched, which should appeal to a wide readership including architects, urban planners, scholars of social movements and anyone with a casual interest in squatting and urban politics. * RIBA Journal *Sheds new light on the transformative role of urban squatting in cities across Europe and North America since the Second World War. Departing from the persistent mythologies and best-known examples of urban squatting Vasudevan reveals understudied examples of activists taking over ordinary as well as iconic, vacant buildings. -- Helen Jarvis * Times Literary Supplement *Carefully researched and discursive study. -- Will Self * New Statesman *Poses difficult and timely questions... a scrupulously detailed, thought-provoking study... a resource for all urban dwellers. * LA Review of Books *This admirable, jargon-free book provides rich, interesting stories about urban squatter movements and makes a significant contribution to political and urban studies and to the field of public policy. * CHOICE *[The Autonomous City] deserves its place on the bookshelf alongside all others which embrace the vision of a more autonomous urban future. * Anarchist Studies *

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Book SynopsisYoung homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation. This accessible guide provides information and advice on how to understand the needs of these young people, and how to ensure they are supported effectively. It combines the latest research and practice to establish what works best when helping young homeless people and provides insights into their world through diary excerpts and interviews. Key issues covered include the relationship between drug and alcohol misuse and youth homelessness, current policies on housing and support for homeless youths and strategies for renewing a young person's familial bonds and friendships after an experience of homelessness. This book is an invaluable guide for anyone working with young homeless people, including youth workers, counsellors, social workers, residential care staff, teachers, health visitors and managers in the housing, education, health and social welfare sectors.Trade Review...this is an important book which fills a gap in terms of translating research and working knowledge about youth homelessness into practice. The book's content conforms broadly to its title and presents a very useful resource concerning issues to consider when working with homeless young people. It describes the forms of practical and psychological issues that need to be addressed in assisting young vulnerable people to develop a sense of self-efficacy and hope for the future. -- Child and Family Social WorkShines much needed light on the world homeless young people inhabit. -- Roof MagazineThis book is insightful, instructive and comprehensive; in short, an excellent read. -- Children and Young People NowSome history, some peer research and a lot of sound advice on working and understanding young people who experience homelessness is what this book provides. -- HousingTable of ContentsIntroduction - What this Book is About. 1. Definitions and Measures of Youth Homelessness. 2. Characteristics of Young Homeless People. 3. A History of Youth Homelessness. 4. A Geography of Youth Homelessness. 5. Something to Do - Education, Training and Employment. 6. Family - A Help or a Hindrance? 7. Friends and Acquaintances - Helping Young People to Maintain and Rebuild Social Networks. 8. Drugs and Alcohol - Dealing with Substance Misuse. 9. Housing and Support - Working for Sustainable Futures. 10. The Human Factor - What Works When Responding to Adolescent Behaviour. 11. The Future of Services for the Homeless. Appendix: The Quarriers Research Project - How Young People's Views Can Be Heard.

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Book SynopsisDesmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century. Larks’ Eggs affirms that stature. Here, with twenty-two classic stories taken from earlier collections and twelve fresh narratives, Hogan displays anew his lyricism, compassion and sheer prismatic brilliance. His subject is exile and self-image, explored through isolates and eccentrics, brittle lives trapped by poverty, personal histories and restless identities, giving a voice to those on the margins – travellers, the misplaced, the dispossessed. Larks’ Eggs‘ compelling tales of diaspora are both global and local, telling of subsumed identity and allurement, of past merging with present through landscape and mindscape. Desmond Hogan’s fragmented personas are repositories for childhood memory and a collective unconscious that is distinctly Irish and history-burdened, while exhilaratingly and wholly universal and modern. ‘Here’s to the storytellers. They made sense of these lonely and driven lives of ours.’ The Lilliput Press is proud to reintroduce one of Ireland’s most evocative prose writers. Desmond Hogan takes his place alongside Joyce, Plunkett, Trevor, O’Faolain, Kiely and McGahern.Trade Review‘[The Airedale] is profound, moving and exquisitely executed. Hogan is one of the finest writers alive today and deserves to be much better known.’ – Cressida Connolly, The Oxford Book of Short Stories ‘Elegiac, daringly sustained prose poem; a collage of meticulously rendered Irish scenes that weaves in and out of tales of tinkers and youths.’ – on ‘Winter Swimmers’, Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement. ‘Desmond Hogan’s mastery of language and characterization rivals that of Flannery O’Connor and Anton Chekhov; never has the psychological landscape of the exile been rendered with such incisive, haunting prose.’ – The San Francisco Chronicle‘[The Airedale] is profound, moving and exquisitely executed. Hogan is one of the finest writers alive today and deserves to be much better known.’ – Cressida Connolly, The Oxford Book of Short Stories ‘Elegiac, daringly sustained prose poem; a collage of meticulously rendered Irish scenes that weaves in and out of tales of tinkers and youths.’ – on ‘Winter Swimmers’, Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement. ‘Desmond Hogan’s mastery of language and characterization rivals that of Flannery O’Connor and Anton Chekhov; never has the psychological landscape of the exile been rendered with such incisive, haunting prose.’ – The San Francisco Chronicle

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Book SynopsisThese eleven stories by Desmond Hogan, his first publication since Larks’ Eggs: New and Selected Stories (2005), collect newly minted shards of experience focused on the lives of the dreamers and marginalized who populate his imagined worlds. They range in time and place from France, Germany and Italy in the nineteenth century to Ireland of the 1950s and the present day. Their concerns are fragility and identity expressed through the outer semblances of dress and deportment, and inner realities of involuntary memory and the retrieval of shared pasts. Close observation of nature combines with psychological unveilings, much of it in the form of erotic reverie. This bricolage of melded history and a fragmented modernism renders truth-to-experience like no other contemporary voice.Trade Review“In an age of sound bite and cliche, Hogan sets the standard both in his use of language and his intensely individual vision. He demonstrates that, at its artistic best, the short story is as rich and demanding as poetry.” –The Irish Times “Hogan paints his picture with such tiny brushstrokes that the impression is not a narrative but a history, open-ended and amorphous, subject to change, but not boiled down into plot, character, beginning and end.” –Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisA collection of twelve mint fresh stories from the award winning Irish author, described by Neil Jordan as 'the real thing - a writer of great originality, dramatic flair, linguistic invention - who remakes the world every time he puts pen to paper.' These tales lead the reader around the fringes of Irish society through the eyes of the marginalized.Trade ReviewThis is a troubled collection from a troubled genius whose narrative technique won’t appeal to traditionalists. -- Brian Maye * The Irish Times *Desmond Hogan in this book is writing at a very high pitch of ambition—he is trying to build the cathedral. The project is immense. -- Kevin Barry * The Stinging Fly *

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Book SynopsisAfter the trauma of the war, those returning home required jobs, and with them clean and modern homes for their families. The slums and tenements of the pre-war years were not going to enable a healthy workforce that was fit to tackle the challenges of the new post-war world. At all cost Britain had to avoid the riot and revolution that had swept Europe in the later stages of the war. This book describes the re-building of the country during the decades after 1918. Bold advances were made in social provision, especially in housing, with ambitious schemes by local authorities, no longer solely through private builders. These early developments were not always able to keep ahead of the economic realities of the time, and many faltered. But through such pioneering improvements, housing was fixed firmly at the centre of British politics. It remains so today.

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Book SynopsisThe Right to Buy is the most controversial housing policy of the last 30 years, but it is also the most successful. Unlike the many studies that have focused on the costs of the policy and sought to show its negative impact, this book seeks to understand the Right to Buy on its own terms. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us - instead of a policy that sought to do things for people, the Right to Buy allowed people to do things for themselves.Trade Review"...invigorates the reader and provides a fresh challenge to many of the assumptions around the RTB." Rebecca Edwards in International Planning Studies"When I showed Mrs Thatcher figures suggesting she should give away all council housing to tenants her instant reply was 'people will not value them unless they pay at least something for them'. These and many more memories of RTB came flooding back as I read King's exceptionally good book." John Blundell, formerly Director of the Institute of Economic AffairsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Owning things; What Mrs Thatcher did; What happened next; What is wrong with it?; What does it tell us?; Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected, especially when housing markets are so volatile. It will be essential reading for all students and practitioners of housing and those concerned with how social and public policy is being shaped in the 21st century.Trade Review'Stuart Lowe's The Housing Debate takes a refreshingly broad view of housing and welfare. Rather than a balanced introduction for students to current debates around housing and social policy, Lowe has a clear case to make.' - Jake Eliot in Citizen's Income Newsletter"Very clear and concise overview of key developments in housing policy. Provides an excellent introduction to housing studies." Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"The Housing Debate ... provides readers with a solid historical, geographic and theoretical foundation." British Politics and Policy at the LSE blog, March 2012"Concise and very clear discussion of contemporary and historical developments in housing policy" Tony Manzi, University of Westminster"We are increasingly having to rely on housing wealth to fund many aspects of our life including retirement when recent experience of the housing market shows that this can be a risky strategy. This book offers a timely re-assessment of the role of housing in social policy. " David Clapham, Cardiff University"By giving us both the longterm and the big picture Stuart Lowe illuminates both the importance of housing to wider debates about welfare and the divides and contradictions inherent in today's housing debates." Caroline Hunter, University of York“In this highly readable and well-informed text, Stuart Lowe makes a compelling case for the central role played by housing in modern welfare state regimes...a key resource for students of social policy, economics and housing studies. Overall, it represents a major contribution to housing studies and to the wider welfare state literature.” Journal of Social PolicyTable of ContentsThe foundations; The idea of housing policy: the crisis of the late-Victorian housing market; The birth of the home-owning society: the interwar years (1918-39); Home-ownership comes of age (the post-war decades (1945-79); The post-industrial economy and housing; Housing and welfare states; The globalisation of the mortgage market;Towards asset-based welfare states; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisFor the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside.Trade Review"...this book is prescient in the nature of its recommendations and should be considered required reading in the context of current policy developments." Tom Moore in Housing Studies Journal"This important contribution to the literature....highlights key themes and public policy choices within an important aspect of housing policy specific to rural regions in Britain." David.W.Marcouiller, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USATable of ContentsContents: Part one: Dissecting the rural housing question: Introduction; The British countryside: nostalgia, romanticism and intervention; 'Protect and consume': understanding the orthodoxy of planning response; The components of the rural housing question; Part two: Components of the rural housing question: The existing policy framework; Planning and land for housing (Supply); Private house building (Supply); Planning and the rural economy (Local Demand); Migration and 'adventitious purchasers' (Demand); Second homes and recreational pressure; Retirement and ageing; Intervening to 'protect' local interests and promote local needs; Planning and affordable housing; Social housing in rural areas; The Private Rented Sector (PRS); Expanding low-cost home ownership; Rural homelessness; Community initiative; Part three: Answering the rural housing question: Seeking answers from overseas; Reviewing the evidence; Working with communities; Challenging 'protect and consume'.

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Book SynopsisThe housing we live in shapes individual access to jobs, health, well being and communities. There are also substantial differences between generations regarding the type of housing they aspire to live in, their attitudes to housing costs, the nature of their households and their attitudes to different tenures. This important contribution to the literature draws upon research from the UK, Australia and the USA to show how lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. It also considers how the global financial crisis has differentially affected housing markets across the globe, with variable impacts on the long term housing transitions of different populations.Trade Review"A major contribution to housing studies and to the wider welfare state literature" Journal of Social Policy"The book furthermore illuminates a number of fundamental issues and trends, and lays bare a whole range of underlying causal mechanisms. As such, it has the potential to inspire a stream of future research." International Journal of Housing PolicyTable of ContentsHousing markets and policy in the 21st century; Housing over the life course: housing histories, careers, pathways and transitions; Housing transitions and housing policy:international context and policy transfer; The housing transitions of younger adults; Housing transitions in mid life: consolidation, opportunity and risk; Housing transitions in later life; Housing transitions and disability: A 21st-century phenomenon; Housing transitions, economic restructuring and the marginalised; Conclusion: negotiating the housing market over the next decades.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to housing options and meanings of 'home'. Such a review is crucial to understanding the varying housing needs and desires of disabled people, particularly in the current economic climate. The book is a practical resource for housing policy makers and practitioners, and will be of interest to academics and students in the field.Trade Review"The book vividly highlights the sheer complexity of issues that disabled people encounter in trying to navigate the housing system." Journal of Social Policy"It succeeds in bringing together housing and disability studies literature and draws upon [the author's] personal research and stands out as the most up-to-date publication of its type." Housing StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Housing policy and disability: from past to present; Understanding disability: from 'personal tragedy' to social disadvantage; Housing tenure, supply and the physical environment; The role of attitudes and assumptions; Affordability issues; A holistic view of the meaning of 'home'; Housing, disability and revisiting the social model.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive investigation of housing issues for disabled people from a social model perspective. Documenting historical and current trends, it looks at policy, barriers to housing options and meanings of 'home'. Such a review is crucial to understanding the varying housing needs and desires of disabled people, particularly in the current economic climate. The book is a practical resource for housing policy makers and practitioners, and will be of interest to academics and students in the field.Trade Review"The book vividly highlights the sheer complexity of issues that disabled people encounter in trying to navigate the housing system." Journal of Social Policy"It succeeds in bringing together housing and disability studies literature and draws upon [the author's] personal research and stands out as the most up-to-date publication of its type." Housing StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Housing policy and disability: from past to present; Understanding disability: from 'personal tragedy' to social disadvantage; Housing tenure, supply and the physical environment; The role of attitudes and assumptions; Affordability issues; A holistic view of the meaning of 'home'; Housing, disability and revisiting the social model.

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

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Book SynopsisAn increasing number of families are becoming homeless, often as a result of domestic violence, which leaves women and their school age children without homes. This multidisciplinary volume is the first to look at the variety of problems encountered by this group and to propose strategies for managing those problems. The contributors to this book provide evidence that homeless children often have more acute problems and needs than other children; as a result of the insecurity of their situation, they may experience physical health problems and developmental delay. They are also at high risk of emotional and behavioural difficulties such as sleep disturbance, eating problems, aggression, over-activity, anxiety, depression and self-harm. At the same time, due to their unstable situation, they are less able to access support from the health, education and social services.Homeless Children defines the specific problems and needs of homeless children, and draws up practical guidelines for staff and agencies on recognising and dealing with those problems. It then looks at policy and service development for homeless families in education, health and social care, and concludes that conventional methods of provision have to be adapted to meet the specific needs of this vulnerable group.Trade ReviewThis is a well-organized book and a worthwhile read for those working in this area. The focus on children and families is important, as is the multidisciplinary approach. Examples of programs that are working in other countries would have made this book richer. The recommendations do not provide the reader with a clear model for successful service delivery or policy development. What does emerge is the realization that conventional methods of service providers must be more flexible if they are to meet the specific needs of this vulnerable and marginalized group. -- CASW BulletinTable of Contents1. Introduction, Stuart Cumella and Panos Vostanis, University of Birmingham. 2. Homeless Families, Stuart Cumella. 3. Health Problems and Homeless Children, Kath Hutchinson, Health Visitors Association. 4. Child Mental Health Problems, Panos Vostanis. 5. Parenting Issues in Homeless Families, Jacqueline Barnes, Tavistock Clinic and Royal Free Medical School. 6. Homeless Children and Domestic Violence, Gill Hague and Ellen Malos, University of Bristol. 7. Homeless Adolescents, Robert Wrate and Caroline Blair, Young People's Unit, Edinburgh. 8. Effects of Changes in Housing Legislation, Pat Niner, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham. 9. The Impact of Health and Social Services, Stuart Cumella. 10. Homeless Children: Public Health Perspectives, Christine R. Victor, Public Health Research Unit, Brighton. 11. Doubly Disadvantaged: Education and the Homeless Child, Sally Power, University of Bristol, Geoff Whitty and Deborah Youdell, Institute of Education, University of London. 12. Access to Voluntary Sector Agencies, Leila Baker, Shelter. 13. Family Homelessness in the USA, John C. Buckner and Ellen L. Bassuk. 14. Responding to Family Homelessness, Stuart Cumella and Panos Vostanis.

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Book SynopsisHuge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks? Unfortunately, aid agencies rarely go back to assess the impact of reconstruction in the longer term. The research upon which Still Standing? is based has done just that. Agencies that undertook projects 335 years ago in countries throughout Asia and Latin America have gone back to record changes and to interview beneficiaries, builders, authorities and other agencies in their project areas.This book describes the stories of the project beneficiaries and how their houses have changed, within contexts that have kept changing too. Still Standing? is essential reading for architects and engineers involved in humanitarian fieldwork as well as students and researchers concerned with disaster risk reduction.

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Book SynopsisMark Kleinman's new book explains what has happened to housing policy in Europe over the last two decades, and what housing policy can tell us about welfare development more generally over the period. Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe identifies a divergence in housing policy between, on the one hand, the majority of relatively affluent households and, on the other, an impoverished minority. The legal, financial and economic concerns of the well-housed, owner-occupier majority have preoccupied public policy across Europe, with the impoverished minority often badly housed or homeless. In Britain this has been particularly evident with elections won and lost on the level of the mortgage rate rather than the level of housing output, and still less on the level of homelessness.Housing policy occupies a unique place in public policy at the intersection of social with economic policy, involving a mixed economy of welfare. Consequently, Dr Kleinman's study offers insights into the future direction of public policy as a whole, the balance between economic and social goals, and the relative weighting given to free markets and state intervention in a variety of countries.Trade Review'Housing, Welfare and the State in Europe not only provides an insightful perspective on recent trends in housing policy, but is essential reading for anyone concerned with wider debates on convergence or social polarization.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Housing, Welfare and the State 2. Britain: An Anglo-Saxon Housing Policy? 3. France: “Qui dit Marché dit Exclusion” 4. Germany: From Social Market to Free Market 5. Europe: Bringing in the (Super) State? 6. The Wider Context: Welfare Division and Welfare Change 7. Policy Convergence or Policy Collapse? References Index

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Book SynopsisEstates of multi-storey housing present some of the most intractable problems for urban policy. Many attempts to deal with these problems have either failed or presented poor value for money. Shelter is not enough is an up-to-date evaluation of the issues. It traces the development of multi-storey housing in Britain from its early beginnings, to the period from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s when most of the contemporary legacy of estates was built. The problems in use are examined as are the responses of the authorities faced with mounting technical and social difficulties. Drawing on an analysis of past practice, a 'model framework' is defined which can help to create successful approaches for the regeneration of multi-storey housing. From the experience of the development of multi-storey housing in Britain, its problems and attempted solutions, implications are drawn for public policy, and a strategic approach is outlined which can reform the estates and reintegrate them into the mainstream urban environment. Finally, the British experience is placed in a broader context - the parallel problems surrounding multi-storey estates in Europe, and the contribution transformed multi-storey estates might make in creating more sustainable cities in the millennium. This book provides valuable information for all those involved in urban regeneration - academics and students of housing, architecture and urban studies; development officers, designers and others working in the practice of estate regeneration.Trade Review"... the best available synthesis of what we know with certainty and what uncertainties still exist ... provocative ." Urban Studies"With an extensive bibliography, the book is an invaluable overview of the subject, accessible enough for non-housing professionals to be serialised in the 'Guardian'." Housing"... makes an original contribution to an important area of housing policy requiring continuing attention. It combines a useful historical perspective on the contentious issue of multi-storey living in Britain with a detailed examination of public sector motivations and subsequent problems to arise." Professor Michael Carley, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh"... this work should prove invaluable to any team of professionals and residents alike who are approaching a new project of this type." Building DesignTable of ContentsIntroduction; Forming the multi-storey legacy; Politics, economics and housing form; Social stigma and community action; Redeeming the estates; Facets of regeneration; Building a model framework; Prospects for transformation; Ending the estate syndrome; On broader horizons.

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Book SynopsisIssues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This book provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated in housing. It deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective which is applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the agency/structure divide. Housing, social policy and difference: brings disability, ethnicity and gender into the centre of an analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency, structure and diversity; develops the ideas of 'difference within difference' and 'social regulation'; looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state. The book will be an important text for students and researchers in housing, social policy, planning, urban studies, sociology, disability studies, gender studies and ethnic relations. It will also interest practitioners committed to greater equalities of opportunities and a fairer society.Trade Review"... an exceptionally well written and thoughtful book, successfully pulling together for discussion a variety of exclusionary experiences." Housing Studies"... impressive in both its contribution to the theoretical debate and its analysis of the developments in the housing context in the UK and the issues facing policy makers and practitioners." HSA Newsletter "The book amply succeeds in its aim of showing the extent of 'difference' in housing. No one could fail to be impressed by the wealth of evidence that Harrison cites in this regard ... The chapters on social regulation in housing, disability and race deal impressively, and in a most scholarly fashion, with a vast amount of material, and constitute valuable and up-to-date reviews of these topics for housing and social policy students." HSA Newsletter"A new and valuable contribution to the development of theory and its application in specific areas of social diversity and housing. The awareness of the literature and the very wide range of sources is a particular strength." Stuart Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Planning, University of Newcastle"Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Difference within difference; Structural factors and social regulation; Social regulation in housing; Disability and housing; Ethnicity, 'race' and housing; Gender and housing Cathy Davis; The accommodation of difference.

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Book SynopsisIn Britain in the 1990s households containing almost 1.4 million adults and children had their mortgaged home possessed. A far greater number experienced serious mortgage arrears but managed to avoid possession. The emergence of such levels of unsustainable home ownership has consequences for many areas of social and public policy, including: the economy; public health; social security reform; and family policy. This book argues that the emergence of unsustainable owner-occupation is emblematic of broader changes in contemporary society associated with the emergence of what commentators such as Beck and Giddens have characterised as a 'risk society'. Home ownership in a risk society: provides the first systematic overview of the meaning and implications of a body of research work that has hitherto remained largely fragmented; argues that the particular conjunction of events which generated the short-term housing crisis of the early 1990s masked a series of more enduring structural changes which have resulted in unsustainable home ownership becoming a more permanent part of the British socio-economic landscape; uses a wide range of methodological strategies - including in-depth qualitative interviews with adults and children, survey analysis, and the multivariate statistical analysis of large-scale data sets; paints a rich and detailed empirical picture of the causes, socio-economic distribution and social consequences of mortgage arrears and possessions. This broad-ranging book is aimed at students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an interest in social policy, sociology, human geography, urban studies, housing studies, public health, economics and finance.Trade Review"... easy to read and provides valuable insights for both academic researchers and policymakers." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment"This book tackles an important group of issues in a coherent way, bringing together recent research evidence and policy debate in one place." Glen Bramley, Professor of Planning and Housing, Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University"This book provides a timely, original and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of 'unsustainable' home ownership. It should be required reading, not only for students and teachers of social policy, but also for policy makers and practitioners alike." Professor Peter Kemp, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow"If any publication is capable of making the government think again about the fatuity of its equity stake suggestions for tenants, it should be this one." AxisTable of ContentsContents: The risks of home ownership; The 'epidemiology' and 'aetiology' of mortgage arrears and possessions; Owner-occupation and the impact of economic transformations; Unsafe safety-nets; The costs of mortgage arrears and possessions; Experiencing mortgage possession; Mortgage arrears and possessions as public health issues; Summary and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThe housing problems of older people in our society are highly topical because of the growing number of retired people in the population and, especially, the yet-to-come increasing number of 'very old' people. Government policies on the care of older people have been forthcoming from Whitehall, but the issue of housing is just beginning to be seriously addressed. This book represents a first attempt at bringing together people from the worlds of architecture, social science and housing studies to look at the future of living environments for an ageing society. Projecting thinking into the future, it asks critical questions and attempts to provide some of the answers. It uniquely moves beyond the issues of accommodation and care to look at the wider picture of how housing can reflect the social inclusion of people as they age. Inclusive housing in an ageing society will appeal to a wide audience - housing, health and social care workers including: housing officers, architects, planners and designers, community regeneration workers, care managers, social workers and social care assistants, registered managers and housing providers, health improvement staff and, of course, current and future generations of older people.Trade Review"... an informative and well-constructed account of many of the key issues. This is a highly useful and accessible book, and will be of considerable interest to policy makers, practitioners and students." Ageing & Society"... a very useful set of papers ... recommended to policy makers, practitioners and students." Journal of Social Policy "... an interesting addition to the library of anyone interested in the misfit between current housing provision and a rapidly ageing population." SPA News"... an impressive overview and discussion of central concepts and ongoing discussions in this field." Housing Studies "... excellent text ... deserves to be read by activists in pensioner forums, by housing and social services officers, and carers alike. Indeed this book should be read by anyone who has an interest in how we should be housing our older people in the coming century." Roof"... essential reading for social policy, health care and housing studies students. It should also be on the 'must have' list for practitioners and policy makers whose work increasingly takes them into the inter-face between health, housing and social care." Moyra Riseborough, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Social Policy, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsContents: Housing an ageing society Sheila M. Peace and Caroline Holland; Part One: Policy and technology debates: From 'special needs' to 'lifestyle choices': articulating the demand for 'third age' housing Julienne Hanson; Lifetime homes Mary Kelly; The politics of accessible housing in the UK Jo Milner and Ruth Madigan; The implications of smart home technologies Malcolm J. Fisk; Dementia and technology Mary Marshall; Part Two: New lives for old?: Integrated segregation? Issues from a range of housing/care environments Brian McGrail, John Percival and Kate Foster; Older people's Co-Housing Communities Maria Brenton; Retirement communities in Britain: a 'third way' for the third age? Judith Phillips, Miriam Bernard, Simon Biggs and Paul Kingston; Shaping everyday life: beyond design Leonie Kellaher; Inclusive housing Caroline Holland and Sheila M. Peace.

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Book SynopsisInnovation is promoted to improve performance and increase the quality of services provided by public service organisations. Managing public services innovation provides the first in-depth exploration of innovation and the management of innovation in the housing association sector. Drawing on longitudinal case studies and data sets, including the Housing Corporation's Innovation and Good Practice database, Managing public services innovation: indicates that housing associations have innovative capacity and classifies innovation in the sector; identifies the 'innovative housing association' and its key characteristics; explores the way innovation has been managed in housing associations making recommendations for best practice; develops techniques to develop evidence-based policy in the housing association sector; discusses the implications of innovating in regulated public service industries. Managing public services innovation is essential reading for housing industry and public management professionals, policy makers and academics in housing, business and public management departments.Trade Review"... a significant, timely and important book for housing studies ... Policy-makers, housing practitioners and regulators will find much that is useful and thought-provoking." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment"This book provides important analysis on innovation and change management. Its valuable insights will help RSL leaders, policy makers and regulators alike." Jim CoulterTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Public services innovation: perspectives on innovation in organisation and management; The housing association policy environment, regulation and innovation; Classifying and measuring innovation; In search of the innovative housing association; Managing innovation; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisIssues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields. A central question is how the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender. This book provides an invaluable overview of key issues set in the context of housing. Touching on concerns ranging from minority ethnic housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, this broad-ranging study shows how difference is regulated in housing. It deploys a distinctive theoretical perspective which is applicable to other aspects of the welfare state, and bridges the agency/structure divide. Housing, social policy and difference: brings disability, ethnicity and gender into the centre of an analysis of housing policies and practices; offers a new approach to housing, informed by recent theoretical debates about agency, structure and diversity; develops the ideas of 'difference within difference' and 'social regulation'; looks beyond the concerns of postmodernism to create an original account of difference and structure within the welfare state. The book will be an important text for students and researchers in housing, social policy, planning, urban studies, sociology, disability studies, gender studies and ethnic relations. It will also interest practitioners committed to greater equalities of opportunities and a fairer society.Trade Review"... an exceptionally well written and thoughtful book, successfully pulling together for discussion a variety of exclusionary experiences." Housing Studies"... impressive in both its contribution to the theoretical debate and its analysis of the developments in the housing context in the UK and the issues facing policy makers and practitioners." HSA Newsletter "The book amply succeeds in its aim of showing the extent of 'difference' in housing. No one could fail to be impressed by the wealth of evidence that Harrison cites in this regard ... The chapters on social regulation in housing, disability and race deal impressively, and in a most scholarly fashion, with a vast amount of material, and constitute valuable and up-to-date reviews of these topics for housing and social policy students." HSA Newsletter"A new and valuable contribution to the development of theory and its application in specific areas of social diversity and housing. The awareness of the literature and the very wide range of sources is a particular strength." Stuart Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Planning, University of Newcastle"Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Difference within difference; Structural factors and social regulation; Social regulation in housing; Disability and housing; Ethnicity, 'race' and housing; Gender and housing Cathy Davis; The accommodation of difference.

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Book SynopsisAgainst a century-long trend of decline, the private rented sector grew significantly during the 1990s. This book explores why and looks at the consequences for tenants and landlords, as well as the wider implications for housing policy. Written by legal and policy experts, the book brings together, for the first time in over a decade, leading-edge research on the newly deregulated private rented sector. It provides background information about the recent history and development of the private rented sector and explores the changing nature of the sector. The book will be invaluable reading for law, public policy, housing and social policy students. Housing practitioners and policy makers will also find it a stimulating read.Trade Review"I am delighted to welcome a book that focuses on private rented housing and the role it continues to play in the housing market. The issues considered here will be of great interest to policy makers and those thinking about the development of housing law." Martin Partington, Law Commissioner for England and WalesTable of ContentsContents: The new private rented sector David Hughes and Stuart Lowe; Private renting in the 21st century: lessons from the last decade of the 20th century A.D.H. Crook; Housing benefit and social security Steve Wilcox; Rents and returns in the residential lettings market David Rhodes and Peter Kemp; The private rented sector in rural areas Phil Hancock; Rental housing supply in rural Scotland: the role of private landowners Madhu Satsangi; The nature of tenancy relationships: landlords and young people Diane Lister; Unlawful eviction and harassment Jill Morgan; Changing Rooms: the legal and policy implications of a burgeoning student housing market in Leicester Martin Davis and David Hughes; The Scottish system of licensing houses in multiple occupation Hector Currie; Housing conditions in the private rented sector within a market framework A.D.H. Crook; Room for improvement: the impact of the local authority grant system Mike Ellison; New law, new policy David Hughes and Stuart Lowe.

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Book SynopsisTechnology has a major role in today's advanced society. In the UK it has been at the centre of Government policies aimed at modernising government and increasing transparency, accountability and governance. However, the reality is that many organisations in the public sector are failing to engage with IT in any meaningful way. This report examines the usage of information technology within housing associations, focusing on the use of technology to extend effective governance through remote access and electronic communication. It also examines current practice in developing and implementing e-strategies, identifies good practice and considers the potential of CIT in enhancing service delivery, achieving accountability and empowering residentsTable of ContentsContent: Remote control, RSLs and e-governance; The context and framework for e-governance: a review of the literature; Research methodology and e-mail survey results; Current CIT usage: results of telephone survey; Case studies; Summary and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis report charts a supportive project which linked four diverse regeneration programmes in different parts of the UK. By working closely together at all levels, the groups involved in the project improved their strategic understanding and operational approaches. The report highlights the key practical themes of successful regeneration - what works and where - and effective ways of learning from the experiences of others. Best practice in regeneration presents practical options for achieving: · diverse and flexible patterns of housing ownership, standards and tenure to retain stable communities; · residents who are committed to the area as a whole, not just to their own home; · community and economic development to build and sustain local capacity; · partnership working between and within organisations.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Scope; Process; Interventions: Part 1- The Joseph Rowntree Foundation menu; Interventions: Part 2 - Participants' issues; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the changing terrain of ethnic disadvantage in Britain, drawing on up-to-date sources. It goes further than texts that merely describe ethnic inequalities to explore and explain their dynamic nature. It suggests that the increasing diversity of experience among different ethnic groups is a key to understanding continuing and emerging tensions and conflicts. Explaining ethnic differences: provides up to date data and analysis of ethnic diversity and changing patterns of disadvantage in Britain; · covers key areas of social life, including demographic trends, education, employment, housing, health, gender, and policing and community disorder; · is written by leading experts in the field; · addresses issues of urgent public importance in the context of recent community disorder and the resurgence of the far right. · The book is essential reading for policy makers in central and local government; academics, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates in the social sciences; social work, health, education and housing professionals; and criminal justice personnel.Trade Review"... an essential read for anyone interested in 'race' and ethnicity studies, including students, academics and those within policy-making institutions. The book should be read as an introductory text to some of the key issues within the study of race and ethnicity." BSA Network Newsletter"... this volume provides new insights into the factors that shape the lives of nearly seven percent (p.3) of the UK population. As such it will not only provide an interesting and informative reference for researchers who contribute to the literature in this field, but also to policy makers who are working towards reducing inequalities and disadvantages for all ethnic groups." Work, Employment and Society"... lively and engaging... a thought-provoking book, which far from merely describing ethnic inequalities aims to explore and explain them." Ethnic and Racial Studies "This is an excellent text which will prove an invaluable complement to others." Journal of Social Policy"This important new book will do much to enhance our knowledge of the differences as well as the similarities between ethnic minority communities in British society. It brings together a wealth of original research that addresses this important issue from a range of perspectives." John Solomos, Centre for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Department of Sociology, City University, LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ David Mason; Changing ethnic disadvantage: an overview ~ David Mason; The demographic characteristics of people from minority ethnic groups in Britain ~ David Owen; Ethnic differentials in educational performance ~ Tariq Modood; Changing patterns of ethnic disadvantage in employment ~ David Mason; Patterns of and explanations for ethnic inequalities in health ~ James Y. Nazroo; Housing black and minority ethnic communities: diversity and constraint ~ Malcolm Harrison; 'All the women are white, all the blacks are men - but some of us are brave': mapping the consequences of invisibility for black and minority ethnic women in Britain ~ Heidi Safia Mirza; Police lore and community disorder: diversity in the criminal justice system ~ Virinder S. Kalra.

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Book SynopsisThis report presents the findings of the first in-depth research into the nature of the organisations being created through the stock transfer process; their organisational culture, governance arrangements and staff management practices. It also investigates the role of Transfer HAs as developers and their evolving relationships with the local authorities. It asks critical questions such as: · How different are transfer HAs from traditional Housing Associations? · To what extent can they be considered "a new breed of dynamic RSLs (Registered Social Landlords)"? · How far have they inherited the values and ethos of their antecedent bodies?Trade Review"This report by Hal Pawson and Cathie Fancy helps fill a major void in information." RoofTable of ContentsContents: Executive summary; Introduction; The stock transfer process; Organisational structures; Staff management and organisational culture; Governance; Housing management; Finance and development; Relationships with local authorities; Conclusions and policy implications.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh new approach to the study of housing. It explores the meaning that housing has for individuals and households by examining 'housing pathways'. Housing pathways refer to the varying household forms that individuals experience and the housing routes that they take over time. The book argues that housing has increasingly become a means to an end rather than an end in itself. The end is personal fulfilment and the main task of housing research is to elucidate the links. In this pursuit, the concepts of identity and lifestyle are key. Specifically, the book examines the structure and functioning of households and links this to changing discourses of the family; explores the important interconnections between housing and employment; considers the relationship between people and the physical aspects of a house and its location; looks at housing in terms of lifestyle choice from youth to old age and discusses the implications of the pathways approach for housing policy and future research in the field. The meaning of housing is recommended to anyone researching and studying housing and particularly to those wishing to engage with the new research agenda set out here.Trade Review"The Meaning of Housing is an innovative contribution to what can be described as a broader attempt to diversify and re-theorise the study of housing. Hopefully, it will trigger further research and encourage others to fill the knowledge gaps that Clapham has usefully highlighted and make the case for a pathways approach more persuasively." Journal of Social Policy"Very useful to get students thinking about the place of housing in a wider social, political, and economic context." Jenny Muir, Queen's University Belfast"David Clapham brings a fresh approach to housing studies through the systematic examination of the choices and constraints that create pathways through the housing system. Its combination of insights from theory and empirical research makes The meaning of housing essential reading for students of housing policy." Brian Lund, Principal Lecturer in Social Policy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsHousing pathways; Households and families; Work; Paying for housing; Houses and homes; Neighbourhoods and communities; Early pathways; Housing pathways in later life; Researching housing pathways.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive volume exploring an issue of growing importance to policy makers, academics, housing practitioners and students. It brings together contributions from the most prominent scholars in the field to provide a range of theoretical perspectives, critical analysis and empirical research findings about the role of housing and urban governance in addressing anti-social behaviour. Contributors assess constructions of anti-social behaviour in policy discourse, identify how housing is increasingly central to the governance of anti-social behaviour and critically evaluate a wide range of measures used by housing and other agencies to tackle what is perceived to be a growing social problem. Although the book focuses on the UK, comparative international perspectives are provided from France, Australia and the United States. The book covers definitions of anti-social behaviour and policy responses including key new legislation and the legal role of social landlords in governing anti-social behaviour. There is comprehensive coverage of key measures including eviction, probationary tenancies, Anti-social Behaviour Orders, mediation and Acceptable Behaviour Contracts, and of innovative developments such as gated communities, intensive support services and the use of private security. "Housing, urban governance and anti-social behaviour" will be of interest to academics, policy-makers, practitioners and students in the fields of housing, urban studies, social policy, legal studies and criminology.Trade Review"This book brings together leading researchers from the UK and overseas to examine how anti-social behaviour is being tackled by an increasing number of agencies and a wide range of techniques. It identifies the ambiguities which exist between the rhetoric of policy and day-to-day practice, and raises the question of whether the Government is really being 'tough on ASB as well as tough on the causes of ASB.'" Ade Kearns, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow"The ever-expanding governance of behaviour has its roots in social housing, and this timely volume brings together a range of housing and neighbourhood studies looking critically at the treatment, and concept, of anti-social behaviour. It deserves a wide readership not only within housing studies but by anyone seeking to understand the developing politics of behaviour." Elizabeth Burney, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: housing and anti-social behaviour ~ John Flint; Housing and the governance of conduct ~ John Flint; Governing tenants: from dreadful enclosures to dangerous places ~ Pauline Card; Labelling: constructing definitions of anti-social behaviour? ~ Helen Carr and Dave Cowan; Anti-social behaviour: voices front the front line ~ Judy Nixon and Sadie Parr; Spaces of discipline and control: the compounded citizenship of social renting ~ Rowland Atkinson; Tenancy agreements: a mechanism for governing anti-social behaviour? ~ Diane Lister; The changing legal framework: from landlords to agents of social control ~ Caroline Hunter; Social landlords, anti-social behaviour and counter-measures ~ Hal Pawson and Carol MacKenzie; Evaluating the shelter inclusion project: a floating support service for households accused of anti-social behaviour ~ Anwen Jones, Nicholas Pleace and Deborah Quilgars; Tackling anti-social behaviour: an evaluation of the Dundee Families Project ~ Suzie Scott; Policing and community safety in residential areas: the mixed economy of visible patrols ~ Adam Crawford; Gated communities: a response to, or remedy for, anti-social behaviour? ~ Sarah Blandy; Housing and anti-social behaviour in Australia ~ Kathy Arthurson and Keith Jacobs; Testing urban forms: city, control and 'urban violence' in France ~ Olivier Ratouis and Jerome Boissonade; Residential stability amongst adolescents in public housing: a risk factor for delinquent and violent behaviour? ~ Tim Ireland, Terence P. Thornberry and Rolf Loeber; Conclusions ~ John Flint.

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Book SynopsisHousing allowances have become increasingly important policy instruments in the advanced welfare states. Operating at the interface between housing and social security policy, they provide means-tested assistance with housing costs for low income households. In the present era of fiscal austerity, such schemes are seen by many governments as a more efficient way to help tenants than rent controls or 'bricks and mortar' subsidies to landlords. Yet as the contributions to this collection show, housing allowances are not without problems of their own, especially in relation to housing consumption and work incentives. This book examines income-related housing allowance schemes in advanced welfare states as well as in transition economies of central and eastern Europe. Drawing on experiences in ten countries, including Britain, Sweden, Germany, Australia and the USA, it presents new evidence on the origins and design of housing allowances; their role within housing and social security policy; their impact on affordability; and current policy debates and recent reforms. Unique in it's depth of coverage, "Housing Allowances in Comparative Perspective" is essential reading for researchers, students and lecturers in social policy, housing and urban studies.Trade Review"Although there is a growing literature examining housing allowances in individual countries, this is one of very few comparative studies. This book facilitates important understanding of the developments and features of housing allowances in different contexts, while Professor Kemp's own introductory and concluding chapters usefully organise this understanding and identify policy lessons." John Doling, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Housing allowances in context ~ Peter A. Kemp; Housing allowances and the restructuring of the Australian welfare state ~ Kath Hulse; The New Zealand experience of housing allowances ~ David Thorns; Canadian housing allowances ~ Marion Steele; Housing allowances American style: the Housing Choice Voucher Programme ~ Sandra J. Newman; Housing allowances in Britain: a troubled history and uncertain future ~ Peter A. Kemp; Housing allowances in France ~ Madhu Satsangi; Housing allowances in Germany ~ Stefan Kofner; Housing allowances in the Netherlands: the struggle for budgetary controllability ~ Hugo Priemus and Marja Elsinga; Housing allowance systems in Sweden ~ Per Ahren; Housing allowances in the Czech Republic in comparative perspective ~ Martin Lux and Petr Sunega; Housing allowances in the advanced welfare states ~ Peter A. Kemp.

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Book SynopsisResearch in Nursing Series The main objectives of this study were to present profiles of a hostel in Glasgow and a comparative hostel, to make assessments and referrals and to evaluate their effect. These objectives were successfully met along with secondary objectives to discover insights into the residents' experiences and lifestyles, and their interaction with health and nursing services. The objectives were addressed by gathering and analysing quantitative and qualitative data and the use of theoretical perspectives: Roy's nursing theory of adaptation (to study the men as individuals) and a sociological perspective, including Deviance Theory, to examine the men as a group. Although the study concentrated on District Nursing practise, it demonstrates universal methods of nursing practise relevant to all community nurses.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Literature Review. Research Design, Method and Pilot Study. Results: Part One. Results: Part Two. Results: Evaluation of the Health Professionals. Responses. Evaluation: The Expert Panel and Expert Witness. Analysis: The Men as Individuals. Analysis: The Residents as a Group. Discussion and Recommendations. Appendix I - Fieldwork Pack. Appendix II - Sample Letters.

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Book Synopsis'The Door Is Open' is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver's downtown eastside. In an area most renowned for its shocking social ills, and the notorious distinction of holding the country's "very poorest forward sortation area of all 7,000 postal prefixes," Bart Campbell dismantles our hard-held notions about poverty, the disenfranchised, substance abuse, and the nature of charity.'The Door Is Open' is one man's story of a transformative journey into the complicated and complex world of poverty. Finalist BC Book Prize Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize "His narrative reads like a 1930s 'noir' journey into the seamier sides of cities once prowled by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. It is this straight-up style that is both the book's strength and, on occasion, its only weak link. Readers looking for a sense of hope will find little of it in Campbell'sgritty descriptions. Indeed, some readers might mistake his unrelenting portrayl of skid row inhabitants as representative of the homeless population across Canada, most of whom are not victims of addiction or mental illness, but of an economy that has been stacked against them for most of their lives, if not for generations before." - Quill & Quire "What is most refreshing about Campbell's memoir is that it neither self-aggrandizes nor propagates a misinformed political message. His work has an objective tone and each chapter is well researched...this is one of the best books I've read all year." - Discorder Finalist City of Vancouver Book Prize

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Book SynopsisOf the roughly 20,000 homeless youths in New York, up to 40 percent of them are LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender). 'Sylvia's Place' originated as the vision of Sylvia Rivera, a transgendered woman, who was an advocate for LGBT rights during her life and worked tirelessly for it even while stricken with cancer. This work covers this topic.

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