Housing and homelessness Books

Book SynopsisThis one stop resource highlights evidence-informed practice and serves as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with individuals experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness and adult safeguarding. This book brings together the best research evidence, service development knowledge, practice expertise and the voices of people with lived experience to help social workers and practitioners navigate the complex area of safeguarding adults and supporting adults with housing-related needs. It also is useful for managers and leaders in this field. Chapters range from contextualising the current landscape, evaluations of policy and reports to best practice for working with individuals, working together to safeguard individuals at risk to chapters on Leadership and Strategic Partnerships.Trade ReviewThe editors have brought together an excellent, timely book - the culmination of leading and capturing so many successful conferences, webinars and briefings. We all now have a much better understanding of how we can help homeless people in need of care and protection. -- Alan Lotinga, ADASS Adult Safeguarding Policy LeadExpert contributions from a growing movement of professionals and people with experience of homelessness who aren't afraid of 'too difficult'; this book is an important step towards safeguarding becoming everyone's business, and health equity. -- Gill Leng, Public Health EnglandThis is an ambitious and important book, drawing timely attention to issues of safeguarding and homelessness. The edited collection represents a significant contribution to the debates on adult safeguarding and developing practice in this key area of adult social care. It will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, managers, students and educators across health and human services professions. -- Bridget Penhale, Reader Emerita (Mental Health of Older People), University of East AngliaTable of Contents1. Introduction by Adi Cooper and Michael Preston-Shoot2. The Policy Context by Karl Mason 3. Seen but not heard: Why challenging your assumptions about homelessness is a matter of life and death by Gill Taylor, Carl Price and Sharon Clint4. Using Curiosity: A Psychologically Informed Approach to Adult Safeguarding and Rough Sleeping by Sione Marshall, Tim Robson, Nathan Servini and Barney Wells5. Health, homelessness and housing supply by Susan Harrison6. Understanding assessments and protection planning duties for adults experiencing homelessness by Fiona Bateman and Bruno Ornelas7. Working together to safeguard individuals at risk. Bristol Creative Solutions Board: A case study by Kate Spreadbury and Paul England8. Sustainable Housing by Imogen Blood9. People with no recourse to public funds experiencing homelessness by Catherine Houlcroft and Henry St Clair Miller10.Learning from Safeguarding adult reviews and fatality reviews by Michael Preston-Shoot and Gill Taylor11.Safeguarding Adults Boards and Multiple Exclusion homelessness: the challenges for system leadership by Adi Cooper 12.Multiple Exclusion Homelessness and Safeguarding - Supporting practitioners 13.Commissioning services: safeguarding and homelessness by Rebecca Pritchard

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Book SynopsisA shortage of affordable new housing, builders choosing to build larger, more profitable houses, and a diminishing stock of cheap houses for rent. All this sounds very familiar today, but at the end of the Great War, scarcely any houses had been built for four years and there was political pressure to build ‘Homes for Heroes’, impelled to a degree by fear of revolution. Council housing, supported by central government funding, was the chosen solution in 1919, and this study by Malcolm Graham, a leading Oxford local historian for many years, examines the consequences in Oxford, then a university city on the cusp of change. Behind the city’s Dreaming Spires image, housing for the working population was already in short supply, but an economy-minded and largely non-political City Council had always been reluctant to intervene in the housing market. In 1919, there was no hint of the city’s industrial future, and the City Council saw the replacement of substandard houses as its main challenge. The meteoric rise of the local motor industry in the early 1920s led to rapid population growth and created a massive new demand for cheap housing. Dr Graham examines the uneasy partnership between the City Council and Whitehall which led to the building of over 3,000 council houses in Oxford between the Wars. The provision of these ‘wholesome dwellings’ was a substantial, and lasting, achievement, but private builders were in fact catering for most housing need in and around the city by the 1930s. The notorious Cutteslowe Walls, built to exclude council tenants from an adjoining private estate, reflected the way in which the growing city was being socially segregated. Dr Graham provides a fascinating insight into how modern Oxford evolved away from the university buildings and college quadrangles for which the city is internationally renowned.Trade ReviewThis attractively presented book is packed with facts and figures about the ‘other Oxford’ and the housing of the working classes. Amply illustrated with estate maps, dwelling plans, and archive photos, the author, Malcolm Graham, former Head of the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, has made a valuable contribution to the historiography of municipal housing. - Robert Ernest Brown (2020), Midland History.In the field of housing history, a subject which should be of major interest to local historians, this is an important and very welcome book... This beautifully-illustrated book provides a very readable and accessible analysis and assessment which focuses on the period between the wars. - Alan Crosby (2021), The Local Historian.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Preface ; Chapter 1 The nineteenth century background ; Chapter 2 Towards municipal housing ; Chapter 3 The Addison Act and Oxford ; Chapter 4 Building for General Needs ; Chapter 5 Building for Slum Clearance and Overcrowding ; Chapter 6 Municipal Housing or Private Enterprise ; Chapter 7 Landlord and Tenants ; Chapter 8 Residential Segregation and the Cutteslowe Walls ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

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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 SynopsisWhat if going back means you could begin again?Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets of Glasgow. Maybe she doesn't believe in serendipity, but a rare moment of kindness and a lost ring conspire to call her home. As Kelly vows to reunite the lost ring with its owner, she must return to the small town she fled so many years ago.On her journey from Glasgow to the south-west tip of Scotland, Kelly encounters ancient pilgrim routes, hostile humans, hippies, book lovers and a friendly dog, as memories stir and the people she thought she'd left behind forever move closer with every step.Full of compassion and hope, Paper Cup is a novel about how easy it can be to fall through the cracks, and what it takes to turn around a life that has run off course.Trade ReviewPaper Cup is very special indeed. Not only is it exquisitely written - and I mean catch-your-breath exquisite - the story is so real and told with such grace and compassion... Trust me (trust me), your world will be a better place for reading this story -- JOANNA CANNONGlowing with empathy and wry intelligent wit. Let Kelly into your life. She'll change you, and you won't forget her -- KIRSTIN INNESBig-hearted and poignant, Paper Cup is a joyous read -- SARA SHERIDAN[A] poignant and harrowing read. Campbell gambles on our empathy when she shows Kelly at her worst, and she wins because she has written, without judgment or criticism, an original and memorable protagonist; one who moves through a landscape described with love and care, and whose interior voice will continue to ring in the reader's head even after the long journey's end is reached -- CLAIRE FULLER * * Guardian * *A rough romance written in rich language and a truly original, brilliant novel * * Daily Mail * *[A]mbitious . . . picturesque . . . generous and often wryly comic novel: a nice variety of incident and characters, fine descriptions of street life in Glasgow and of Kelly's journey - a quest that is both physical and spiritual, offering the prospect of recovery and redemption . . . readers are surely likely to find pleasure and satisfaction in the humanity of Campbell's treatment of people who have led difficult lives -- Allan Massie * * Scotsman * *[A]n exquisitely written and compassionate novel of addiction, shame, hope and kindness * * Essential Magazine * *Wonderful, empathetic, timely and moving . . . With every page I shivered with love and warmth and nostalgia * * Bella Caledonia * *Full of compassion and hope * * Dumfries & Galloway Life * *Terrific -- Morag Kuc * * Galloway Gazette * *

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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 SynopsisThis book is about Bristol's changing face. Written by an author who grew up in the heart of Bristol's ghetto, Palmer sheds light on the supposed 'renovation' that Bristol's poorer quarters have been undergoing. Growing up in Easton's neighbouring Whitehall, he would get into fights, be beaten up, be robbed at the end of a gun barrel, and experience the rough and ready upbringing that youths in these areas face the country over. After returning from university, however, he began to hear that Easton and similarly poor areas like St Pauls and Bedminster were 'up and coming'. To get to the bottom of this claim, Palmer interviews countless people and draws on much research to reveal the shocking reality that faces the type of people he grew up with: rent hikes, snobbery, institutional racism, homelessness, and removal from the communities they once loved.Trade ReviewHis is a reasoned and elegant 'voice from the street'... If you care about cities and want to understand why they have become far too expensive, and if you want to do something about it, then this is the book for you." Dr Tom Slater

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An innovative text aimed at social work students and designed to develop their knowledge and understanding of social policy and how to best apply this in practice. It demonstrates how they can use such skills to support vulnerable individuals, groups and communities to achieve positive change. The relevance of social policy to people with lived experience of social work intervention is examined, and students are given the underpinning critical skills to prepare them for social work placements in various settings, and for their professional lives as qualified social work practitioners. Understanding and applying social policy is a core principle of social work which should inform practice and be used to achieve positive outcomes for service users. Students need to understand the relevance of social policy to social work practice. This book provides an overview of the historical background and the ideologies that have shaped social policy, including an analysis of the five pillars:income,health,education,housing andsocial services. It is a clear and accessible resource for social work students that will given them a fuller understanding of the importance of social policy and how social issues intersect for service users. There is also a study skills chapter to support students with their academic studies and beyond.

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Book SynopsisWATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH'A truly original, brilliant novel' Daily Mail'Very special indeed . . . your world will be a better place for reading this story' Joanna CannonEveryone deserves a second chance.You just have to take the first step.Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the streets of Glasgow. Maybe she doesn't believe in serendipity, but a rare moment of kindness and a lost ring conspire to call her home, returning to the small town she fled so many years ago.Trade ReviewPaper Cup is very special indeed. Not only is it exquisitely written - and I mean catch-your-breath exquisite - the story is so real and told with such grace and compassion... Trust me (trust me), your world will be a better place for reading this story -- JOANNA CANNONA rough romance written in rich language and a truly original, brilliant novel * * Daily Mail * *[A] poignant and harrowing read. Campbell gambles on our empathy when she shows Kelly at her worst, and she wins because she has written, without judgment or criticism, an original and memorable protagonist; one who moves through a landscape described with love and care, and whose interior voice will continue to ring in the reader's head even after the long journey's end is reached -- CLAIRE FULLER * * Guardian * *Glowing with empathy and wry intelligent wit. Let Kelly into your life. She'll change you, and you won't forget her -- KIRSTIN INNES[A]mbitious . . . picturesque . . . generous and often wryly comic novel: a nice variety of incident and characters, fine descriptions of street life in Glasgow and of Kelly's journey - a quest that is both physical and spiritual, offering the prospect of recovery and redemption . . . readers are surely likely to find pleasure and satisfaction in the humanity of Campbell's treatment of people who have led difficult lives -- Allan Massie * * Scotsman * *Big-hearted and poignant, Paper Cup is a joyous read -- SARA SHERIDAN[A]n exquisitely written and compassionate novel of addiction, shame, hope and kindness * * Essential Magazine * *Wonderful, empathetic, timely and moving . . . With every page I shivered with love and warmth and nostalgia * * Bella Caledonia * *Full of compassion and hope * * Dumfries & Galloway Life * *Terrific -- Morag Kuc * * Galloway Gazette * *

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Book SynopsisWhat do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?Trade Review'At a time when organising resistance and protest is crucially necessary, the collected authors marshal a virtuous trinity of activism, critically engaged scholarship and theory. Activists may not need academics, and nor should they be in the vanguard, but this text highlights welcome intellectual and practical solidarity' -- Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire'In this excellent book, the editors bring together an impressive range of chapters covering resistance to punitivism in social welfare and criminal justice. The book's radical agendas are crystal clear and critical at a time of brutal state action. It deserves a wide readership' -- Chris Grover, co-editor of 'Disabled People, Work and Welfare: Is Employment Really the Answer?'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener PART I: CHALLENGING STATE–CORPORATE POWER: THEORIES AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE 1. Resisting the Punitive State–Corporate Nexus: Activist Strategy and the Integrative Transitional Approach - Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth 2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State–Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City - Laura Naegler 3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University - Steve Tombs and David Whyte PART II: RESISTING THE PUNITIVE WELFARE STATE: HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND IMMIGRATION 4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement - Lisa Mckenzie 5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare ‘Reform’ and for Something Better - Peter Beresford 6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell - Glyn Robbins 7. The Disabled People’s Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation - Bob Williams-Findlay 8. The ‘Hostile Environment’ for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance - Ken Olende PART III: SUBVERSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND RESISTANCE: RECONCEPTUALISING CRIMINALISATION, PENALITY AND VIOLENCE 9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing - Raphael Schlembach 10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons - David Scott 11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want - Julia Downes 12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties - Robert Ferguson Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis blistering expose takes the reader inside England's national scandal of homelessness to reveal how government choices have forced single mothers and their families into impossible hardship with hundreds of thousands of children living in temporary accommodation for months, years and sometimes their entire childhood.

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Book SynopsisDanny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford. He has worked both with the British government and the World Health Organization and is frequently asked to comment on current issues on TV and the radio. He has published more than twenty-five books, including Injustice: Why Social Inequality Exists, So You Think You Know About Britain? and The 32 Stops for Penguin Underground Lines.Trade Review5 stars. As Danny Dorling's powerfully argued new book makes clear ... the need for serious action has never been greater -- Ed Cumming * Telegraph *Dorling grasps the importance of the issue. His urgency is warranted. The professor is also often correct -- John McDermott * Financial Times *The most lucid and urgent account of the UK's housing crisis you'll read this year. It deserves a place at the top of David Cameron's reading list. In fact, one would like to hand-deliver it to every minister... Dorling's anger at our legislators is palpable... his solutions are at once simple and radical * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color.The authors highlighted in this updated volume address themes central to housing as an area of social policy and to understanding its particular meaning in the United States. These include the long history of racial exclusion and the role that public policy has played in racializing access to decent housing and well-serviced neighborhoods; the tension between the economic and social goals of housing policy; and the role that housing plays in various aspects of the lives of low- and moderate-income residents. Scholarship and the COVID-19 pandemic are raising awareness of the link between access to adequate housing and other rights and opportunities. This timely reader focuses attentTrade Review"Urgent trends—from the movement for racial justice to intensified economic inequality, back-breaking rents, climate risk, and a paradigm shift in health—have spotlighted housing and affordability in ways not seen since the 1960s. This superb compilation will help newcomers, as well as seasoned practitioners and scholars, navigate classic debates and think beyond them too."-- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and co-author, Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty"For this new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader, editors Mueller and Tighe have assembled a superb collection of timely and essential essays by many of the field’s leading scholars. The volume frames several key debates in affordable housing policy, including its objectives and the forms it should take. "-- Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States"Affordable housing is a notoriously complex field. This new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader offers an updated look at some key questions, such as how we define affordability, and the roles of race and community control in the field. It should give a substantial grounding to those who want to understand, and improve, American housing policy."-- Miriam Axel-Lute, CEO/Editor in Chief, ShelterforceTable of ContentsPART 1: CONFLICTING MOTIVATIONS FOR HOUSING POLICY 1. A citizen’s guide to public housing 2. The Housing Act of 1949 3. The evolution of low-income housing policy, 1949 to 1999 4. The Kerner Commission and Housing Policy 5. Advancing the right to housing in the United States: Using international law as a foundation PART 2: DEFINING AND MEASURING HOUSING PROBLEMS 6. What is housing affordability? The case for the residual income approach 7. How do we know when housing is “affordable”? 8. How affordable is HUD affordable housing? 9. Consequences of segregation for children’s opportunity and wellbeing 10. Home is where the harm is: Inadequate housing as a public health crisis PART 3: HOUSING TENURES 11. The grapes of rent: A history of renting in a country of owners 12. The sustainability of low-income homeownership: The incidence of unexpected costs and needed repairs among low-income homebuyers 13. Old wine in private equity bottles? Resurgence of contract‐for‐deed home sales in US urban neighborhoods 14. Making home more affordable: Community land trusts adopting cooperative ownership models to expand affordable housing PART 4: PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING 15. The quadruple bottom line and nonprofit housing organizations in the United States 16. American murder mystery revisited: Do housing voucher households cause crime? 17. From public housing to public–private housing 18. What should be the future of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program? PART 5: THE MEANING OF PLACE 19. Federal support for CDCs: Some of the history and issues of community control 20. W(h)ither the community in community land trusts? 21. CDCs in the right‐sizing city 22. Planning for empowerment: Upending the traditional approach to planning for affordable housing in the face of gentrification PART 6: PLANNING AND LAND USE 23. It’s time to end single-family zoning 24. Democracy in action? NIMBY as impediment to equitable affordable housing siting 25. Progress for whom, toward what? Progressive politics and New York City’s mandatory inclusionary housing 26. One size fits none: Local context and planning for the preservation of affordable housing PART 7: THREATS TO HOUSING SECURITY 27. Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction 28. Metropolitan segregation and the subprime lending crisis 29. Inequities in long-term housing recovery after disasters 30. Rental housing assistance and health: Evidence from the survey of income and program participation PART 8: RACE AND FAIR HOUSING 31. Whiteness and urban planning 32. The experience of racial and ethnic minorities with zoning in the United States 33. Still paying the race tax? Analyzing property values in homogeneous and mixed-race suburbs 34. The duty to affirmatively further fair housing: A legal as well as policy imperative

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Book SynopsisHousing has enjoyed a high place on the agendas of most socialist countries. However this place has not been undisputed and this book examines the internal and external forces which have influenced housing under central planning.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Housing Policy in Eastern Europe and The Soviet Union John Sillince 2. Poland Andrew Dawson 3. Czechoslovakia David Short 4. Romania David Turnock 5. Bulgaria Frank Carter 6. Soviet Union Gregory Andrusz 7. German Democratic Republic Hans Buchholz 8. Albania Derek Hall 9. Yugoslavia Shaun Topham 10. Hungary Gabor Locsmandi and John Sillince 11. Conclusion John Sillince Index

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Book SynopsisTower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being built for the wealthy middle class. While on the surface the modernist apartment block appears universal, it is in fact diverse in its significance and connotations as its many different cultural contexts. Florian Urban studies the history of mass housing in seven narratives: Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Brasilia, Mumbai, Moscow, and Shanghai. Investigating the complex interactions between city planning and social history, Tower and Slab shows how the modernist vision to house the masses in serial blocks succeeded in certain contexts and failed in others. Success and failure, in this respect, refers not only to the original goals â to solve the housing crisis and provide modern standards for the entire society â but equally to changing significance of the housing blocks within the respective societies and their perception by architects, politicians, and inhabitants. These differences show that design is not to blame for mass housingâs mixed record of success. The comparison of the apparently similar projects suggests that triumph or disaster does not depend on a single variable but rather on a complex formula that includes not only form, but also social composition, location within the city, effective maintenance, and a variety of cultural, social, and political factors.Table of ContentsPreface Mark Jarzombek Introduction 1. Social Reform, State Control, and the Origins of Mass Housing 2. Mass Housing in Chicago 3. The Concrete Cordon Around Paris 4. Concrete Slabs versus Stucco Ornaments in East and West Berlin 5. Brasilia, the Slab Block Capital 6. Mumbai – Mass Housing for the Upper Crust 7. Prefab Moscow 8. High-Rise Shanghai 9. Global Architecture, Locally Conditoned

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Book SynopsisIntroduces the reader to the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. This work develops a cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexuality, family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality and power relations.Trade Review"A deeply nuanced picture of a population that cannot escape social reprobation, but deserves social inclusion... The collage of case studies, field notes, personal narratives and photography is nothing short of enthralling." - Starred Review Publishers Weekly "Get this book and read it... A hell of a story... These people walk by you every day and should not remain invisible." San Francisco Bay Guardian "Leaders and readers alike should pay attention to - and heed its warnings and advice... Unflinching and objective... Must be read - and seen." San Francisco Chronicle "The authors dare you to ignore the subculture in their field notes and arresting black-and-white images, urging that our failed social systems need repairing and we cannot continue to let these outliers remain invisible." Utne "Recommended." Choice "One of the most original and important works of its kind... A pathbreaking photo-ethnography, powerful in presentation, content and scope... A must-read, [it] will rock the world of the sheltered middle class and shed new light on the pervasive structural inequalities plaguing contemporary society." -- Elijah Anderson, author of Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Philadelphia Inquirer "Truly remarkable book." -- Grazyna Zajdow Arena Magazine "Powerfully candid." Zocalo (The Public Square Blog) "With a combination of photographs, dialogue, field notes and critical theory, the book provides a detailed analysis of the social structure of an underground society in contemporary America." Roof Magazine "This book offers as complete and disturbing a view as can be had of just how awful and intractable street life in San Francisco can get." San Francisco ChronicleTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Theory of Lumpen Abuse 1. Intimate Apartheid 2. Falling in Love 3. A Community of Addicted Bodies 4. Childhoods 5. Making Money 6. Parenting 7. Male Love 8. Everyday Addicts 9. Treatment Conclusion: Critically Applied Public Anthropology References Notes on the Photographs Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFrom 'scroungers' to 'strivers' we need a new class story.Trade Review'More than a decade after the financial crisis, Split is a timely reminder of the most important divide that runs through the global economy, and how working people can organise to take back control of their lives. Clearly-argued, incisive and accessible, this book should be required reading for activists everywhere' -- Grace Blakeley, author of 'Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Class is a lucrative British export 1. The split: Capital and labour 2. Work: Less is more 3. Gender: Please mind the gap 4. Money: Who wants to be a billionaire? 5. Culture: From class conundrums to class ceilings 6. Environment: ‘A handful of dust’ 7. Housing: ‘Can’t pay – We’ll take it away’ 8. The authorities: Schools, prisons and the welfare state 9. Race: ‘I never thought of class applying to black people’ 10. Solidarity: Confronting class Resources

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the twentieth century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.Turkey and Pakistan have been subject to two of the largest compulsory population transfers of the twentieth century. They have also been the sites for large magnitudes of emigration during the second half of the twentieth century, creating influential diasporas in European cities such as London and Berlin. Discrimination has been both the cause and result of migration: while internal problems compelled citizens to emigrate from their countries, blatant discriminatory and ideological constructs shaped their experiences in their countries of arrival. Read together, the Partition emerges from the essays in Part I not as a pathology specific to the Balkans, Middle East, or South Asia, but as a central problematic of the new political realities of decolonization and nation formation. The essays in Part II demonstrate the layered histories and multiple migration paths that have shaped the experiences of Berliners and Londoners. This analysis furthers the study of modernism and migration across the borders of, not only the nation-state, but also class, race, and gender. As a result, this book will be of interest to a broad multidisciplinary academic audience including students and faculty, artists, architects and planners, as well as non-specialist general public interested in visual arts, architecture and urban literature.

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Book Synopsisdesigning networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of practice, experimentation, and research by designers (landscape architects, urban planners, urban designers and architects), this approach engages with contemporary thought across a number of disciplines to re-invent the entrenched blunt instruments of the city making process.A cry for flexible, sharp-instruments in urban design, designing networks cities presents a multi-dimensional way of seeing the essential components of the city (form, space-time, order and aesthetics). It purposefully links traditional architectural design derivation mechanisms to urban design, in the hope that cities will not only be pragmatic, but also become sophisticated iconographically, poetically, and syntactically. It provides the tools to enable decision making within a multipTable of ContentsPart A. before we start Part B. networks cities methodology Part C. precedents Part D. more beyond the nets

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Book SynopsisThis book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England's private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies. From the environmental health practitioner perspective, the targeted health problem is occupiers privately renting from negligent or criminal landlords who are subsequently exposed to hazardous conditions arising from disrepair.Paul Oatt's analysis looks at the powers local authorities have to address retaliatory eviction when enforcing against housing disrepair and digs deeper into their duties to prevent homelessness and powers to protect tenants from illegal eviction. He then explores the potential for tenants to take private action against landlords over failures to address disrepair, before finally discussing proposals put forward by the government to abolish retaliatory evictions and improve secur

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Book SynopsisThis book by preeminent planning theorist Martin H. Krieger explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. Planning today is dominated by social science, but Kreiger takes a different approach, thinking of city planning in terms of Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality. The chapters explore planners and their role as protagonist in the humanities of literature and history; the inevitability of uncertainty in planning and how to face it; and how to attend to the physical, visual, and aural environment of the city. Through a series of essays, Krieger shows that cities are cultural and meaningful, that they are contingent and so filled with opportunity, and that they are concrete, particular, and encountered. The Humanities in City Planning will be of interest to students and scholars of the humanities and planning looking for alternative ways of viewing the city.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the so-called endowment effect in the housing market. In a nutshell, the phenomenon of overvaluing things we own which was first conceptualised in 1980 and has since been one of the most studied behavioural biases in economics.The first chapter presents a systematic review of the literature on the endowment effect in the housing market, together with the identification of research gaps to be filled by other researchers. The second chapter aims to propose a theoretical model explaining the strength of the endowment effect in sales and rental housing markets by primary and secondary markets. The last chapter presents the results of empirical research on the endowment effect in the Polish housing market, testing the model presented in Chapter 2. The chapters can be read together or independently by researchers, students, and policymakers interested in behavioural economics in housing and real estate. For policymakers, the boo

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Book SynopsisIn this book, readers journey through rural small towns to discover practical tools for driving meaningful change in housing. The book delves into the roots of present-day challenges of rural places, tracing their origins to shifts in economic and demographic landscapes. Chapters explore the pivotal role of housing for individuals and communities, shedding light on how small town leaders often act only when prompted by crisis or opportunity. The authors furnish a blueprint outlining essential components for crafting and executing a housing strategy tailored to the unique needs of rural communities. The book culminates in a compelling call to action, coupled with a concise guide to best practices and common pitfalls in community housing efforts. It is ideal for community leaders and practitioners, and students in urban and regional planning as well as community development.

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Book SynopsisSmall property houses provide living space to about eight million migrant workers, office space for start-ups, grassroots police stations and public schools; their contribution to the economic growth and urbanization of a city is immense. The interaction between the small property sector and the formal legal order has a long history and small property has become an established engine of social and legal change. Chinese Small Property presents vivid stories about how institutional entrepreneurs worked together to create an impersonal market outside of the formal legal system to support millions of transactions. Qiao uses an eleven-month fieldwork project in Shenzhen - China''s first special economic zone that has grown to a mega city with over fifteen million people - to demonstrate this. A thorough and detailed investigation into small property rights in China, Chinese Small Property is an invaluable source of new information for students and scholars of the field.Trade Review'Can a vibrant real estate market arise in a nation with a stunted legal system? Hernando de Soto famously thought not. Splendidly interweaving field findings with social-scientific theory, Shitong Qiao dismantles the de Soto thesis. In many Chinese cities, booming housing markets have rested largely on informal understandings.' Robert Ellickson, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, Yale Law School'In this remarkable book, Shitong Qiao not only illustrates the intricacies of China's booming periurban land market but also demonstrates how Chinese peasants, together with newly urbanizing industrial workers, have fashioned extensive systems of informal 'small property' commercial land transactions, in spite of a legal system that purportedly forbids them. Qiao's book offers a nuanced discussion of the relationships between law and social norms in Chinese land markets, along with a significant rejoinder to the view that dynamic land markets depend on formal systems of property law.' Carol M. Rose, University of Arizona'A fascinating exploration of the lively housing market that arose in suburban Shenzhen outside the framework of formal law. Based on in-depth field research, Qiao documents the residential building boom, and he then assesses both the strengths and the ultimate limitations of extra-legal arrangements as engines of development.' Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University, Connecticut'In this multi-disciplinary work, Qiao has taken Robert Ellickson's pioneering work on social norms and property rights from rural California to Shenzhen, China, one of the world's fastest growing, most complex urban markets. In doing so he has demonstrated that much of what we thought we knew about law, property rights, social norms, and development was incomplete at best and flat wrong at worst.' Frank Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law'All in all, this book provides very valuable insights into the evolution of China's property rights regime. It revisits several influential conventional theories and offers critical and valid scrutiny based on empirical findings in China. These insights are most likely applicable to other primitive property markets in developing countries too. The author advances the theoretical depth of existing literature and offers an analytical framework for further research worth doing by scholars of varying fields, including property law, comparative law, law and development, and law and economics.' Weitseng Chen, ICONTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The evolution of land law in China: partial reform, vested interests, and small property; 2. Planting houses in Shenzhen; 3. Small property, big market: a focal point explanation; 4. Small property, adverse possession and optional law; 5. Small property in transition: a tale of two villages; 6. All quiet on the judicial front?; Conclusion: market transition: sticky norms or sticky law?

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Book SynopsisThis textbook looks at economic development at the local, community or regional scale. It provides students with a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thinking about locally-based economic development, how growth can be planned and how that development can be realized.Globalization, Planning and Local Economic Development:â Provides students with a thorough understanding of current debates around local and regional development and how that body of work can assist them in helping communities grow;â Equips students with a âtoolkitâ of strategies that enable them to both plan for development and deliver that development through their professional lives; â Offers a roadmap for economic development that helps students make sense of place-based development by providing a âmeta narrativeâ of how regions grow and how those processes can be enhanced. This integrating perspective will be organized around the concept of competitiveness and how that concept can beTrade Review'Place matters! This red thread through this textbook written by two recognized scholars calls for active care and smart governance for cities and regions. This fine opus offers practical and pedagogical guidelines for professionals and students in urban and regional planning. Both the local and the global arena of competitiveness and of endogenous and external forces are systematically and comprehensively mapped out. This book is a great source of new insights in place-based policy strategies.' – Peter Nijkamp, Universiteit Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS), The Netherlands'This book is highly recommended in understanding what is happening locally and globally in planning and economic development. It will be a hugely helpful source of information and insight for those going into – or already working in – careers in economic development, urban planning, transport planning, spatial data analysis and applied economic analysis, and indeed the wider world of public policy. Clear, well written, great coverage and with many interesting examples – a must-read.' – David Bailey, Aston Business School, Aston University, UK‘I strongly recommend this book to all those interested in better understanding economic development at the local, community or regional scales, as well as in accessing an updated and comprehensive toolkit of economic development knowledge, techniques and strategies.’ — Eduardo Medeiros, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal, Regional Studies (2020)Table of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesList of boxesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsCHAPTER 1 Introduction1.1 Planning for economic development1.2 New models of thinking about local economic development1.3 Generating more prosperous communities1.4 ConclusionKey messagesCHAPTER 2 The challenge of local economic development2.1 San Diego2.2 Washington, DC 2.3 Chattanooga 2.4 Concordia, Kansas 2.5 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 3 Why places grow 3.1 Understanding the drivers of growth 3.2 The analysis of current growth patterns 3.3 Regional competitiveness 3.4 Conclusion 46Key messages 47CHAPTER 4 The components of local growth in the 21st century 4.1 Connectivity and the global economy 4.2 Innovation and the knowledge economy 4.3 Agglomeration economies – does size matter in the 21st century?4.4 Population processes and human capital4.5 Institutions and institutional dynamics4.6 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 5 Exogenous development: fast-tracking growth5.1 Exogenous or endogenous development? 5.2 Industrial recruitment and retention 5.3 Foreign direct investment 5.4 Assessing externally led growth 5.5 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 6 Endogenous development: building the economy from the ground up 6.1 Encouraging endogenous development 6.2 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 7 Amenity, branding and economic growth 7.1 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 8 Assessing the region and data-driven strategic economic development planning8.1 Data-driven economic development planning8.2 Data for economic development planning8.3 Methods of data analysis 8.4 Target industry analysis 8.5 Program evaluation 8.6 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 9 Planning and coordinating economic development 9.1 Strategic planning 9.2 Working with government agencies 9.3 Mobilizing community resources 9.4 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 10 Land use planning and economic development 10.1 Historical perspective 10.2 The mechanisms of land use regulation 10.3 Impacts of land use regulation on economic development 10.4 New urban designs and economic development 10.5 Summarizing the impacts of land use regulation on economic development 10.6 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 11 The profession of economic development 11.1 Economic development in global perspective 11.2 Professional associations 11.3 Employment opportunities 11.4 Conclusion Key messages CHAPTER 12 Future challenges and strategies in economic development 12.1 A future economy, the future of economic development practice 12.2 The e-economy and economic development 12.3 Conclusion Key messages Index

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Book SynopsisNo.1 Players always come firstNo.2 We look to the futureNo.3 We never leave anyone behindNo.4 We place others before ourselvesNo.5 We keep our promisesFive women have come together with one goal, one dream. Coming from very different backgrounds in life they have to work together as a team if they want to do what no one from Scotland has ever done before. To win the Homeless World Cup, and bring the trophy home.A joyful story of community and teamwork, building connections between each other, and homelessness. Written with the Dundee Women's Street Soccer Team, Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse''s Same Team A Street Soccer Story is an uplifting whirlwind through the highs and lows of homeless football.This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, in December 2023.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviewing the development of policy under successive UK Governments and presenting a specific critique of the current Conservative Government's housing and planning reforms.Trade Review"This timely and accessible book offers an alternative to existing accounts and an authoritative perspective that will stimulate academic and policy debate over how to address the continuing failure of housing supply and housing policy in England." Alan Murie, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Studies, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsSection 1: The context; Conservative government policy and the Housing and Planning Act 2016; Critiques of the current direction of government policy; The failure of governments since 1979 and the ideological continuities; Section 2: The crisis of housing supply; The housing deficit; Affordable by whom?; The wrong kind of homes; The ineffecient use of the existing stock; The failure of the English planning system; Section 3: There is an alternative; A radical programme for reform; Conclusion: The four key issues.

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Book SynopsisWhat kinds of care are being offered or withdrawn by the welfare state? What does this mean for the caring practices and interventions of local activists? Shedding new light on austerity and neoliberal welfare reform in the UK, this vital book considers local action and activism within contexts of crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic.Trade Review“Jupp skilfully connects micro-, meso- and macro-levels through her investigation of activists’ involvement in various forms of organising (not necessarily organisations) in a welfare state shaped by austerity. Her nuanced analysis addresses the affordances and ambivalences of community activism.” The Sociological ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: sticking plasters and cotton wool 1. Care, austerity and the politics of everyday lives 2. Citizenship and community in times of crisis 3. Journeys into and through local activism under austerity 4. Austerity politics and infrastructures of care: Children’s Centre closures and activism 5. Small stories and political change: local activism across time and space 6. Provisioning in times of crisis 7. Conclusions: a politics of everyday life?

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Book SynopsisDeepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between homes and neighbourhoods over the lifespan. This book presents a life course framework for understanding how the changing dynamics of people's lives influence their residential experiences.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Housing: a life course perspective 3. Households and families 4. Learning and training 5. Employment and money 6. Health, well-being and care 7. Changing places 8. Understanding housing and life course dynamics

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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.

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Book SynopsisA journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of the rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keep women literally and figuratively imprisoned. Outlaw Women examines the forces that shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as the Western frontier. Drawing on dozens of interviews with women in the state of Wyoming who were incarcerated or on parole, the authors provide an in-depth examination of women's perceptions of their lives before, during, and after imprisonment. Considering cultural mores specific to the rural West, the authors identify the forces that coTrade Review"A unique, readable, lengthy study of female incarceration in the Wyoming women's prison, one of 67 state women's prisons in the US." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisErik Hansson examines Swedish society's reactions to the presence of European Union citizens, mainly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma, begging in the 2010s.Trade Review"This brilliant and intense book is recommended for anyone conducting research on homelessness and urban poverty in general."—Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow“Politically urgent, theoretically exciting, and beautifully written, The Begging Question combines razor-sharp materialist and psychoanalytic analysis to offer a radical rethinking of begging and of how to escape the limited political and ethical imaginaries that surround it.”—Felicity Callard, professor of human geography at the University of Glasgow“Artfully exposes the unconscious underpinnings of social democracy in Sweden, showing how it is laced with proclivities to scapegoat the Other. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary forms of racism and poverty.”—Ilan Kapoor, professor of critical development studies at York University, Toronto“Erik Hansson innovatively combines theories of psychoanalysis, class dynamics, and racism to explain anxieties in encountering begging and contradictory political responses to the arrival of Roma from the European Union.”—Michael Jones, professor emeritus of geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology“A rich and thought-provoking examination of the emergence of racialized poverty and begging in one of Europe’s historically most egalitarian social democracies. Drawing creatively on Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, Erik Hansson opens a vital space to reflect—politically and psychically—on what inequality, nationalism, and the politics of redistribution mean in Sweden today.”—Jesse Proudfoot, assistant professor of sociology at Durham UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Don Mitchell Acknowledgments The Problem: An Introduction Part 1. Anxiety: The Universal in the Particular 1. Searching for Elucidations 2. The Concrete’s Historical Layers 3. Abjection, or Hell Is Othered People 4. Anxiety and Ethics 5. Ideology, or Enjoying the National Thing Part 2. Hegemony: The Particular in the Universal 6. The Swedish Ideology, or Missing Exceptional Equality 7. The Tolerant Stance of Inaction, 2010–2015 8. The Borromean Welfare Knot 9. The Conjuncture, 2015–2019 The Problem: An Epitome Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age—providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities. * Abigail A. Van Slyck, Dayton Professor Emerita of Art History and Architectural Studies, Connecticut College, USA *German architecture rewritten from the perspective of the single men and women living in mass housing. Meticulously researched, Erin Eckhold Sassin’s book is a major contribution to the histories of modernization and urbanization and their highly gendered designs for living. * Sabine Hake, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Unmarried Individual and the “Lodger Problem” 1. Adolph Kolping’s Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing “Wild” Youth 2. Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the “Roving Male” 3. Making the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All 4. Homes for Women: Between the Domestic Realm and the Public Sphere Extended Conclusion: Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type

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Book SynopsisAs the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s social housing to make way for higher rent paying newcomers, they have been promised a higher quality of housing. Councils have passed the responsibility for this housing to private consortia who amazingly have been allowed to self-regulate on quality and safety. Residents have been ignored for years on this and only now are we hearing the truth. Stuart will weave together his research on PFIs, regulation and resident action to tell the whole story of how Grenfell happened and how this could easily have happened in multiple locations across the country.Trade Review'A timely and important book, exposing how private profit and reckless privatisation have caused unspeakable tragedies to social housing in this country.'David Lammy MP'Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the outsourcing - for which read privatisation - of social housing over the last 30 years. Hodkinson explains how this, above all, is the root cause of the Grenfell Fire and exposes how it is just the tip of the iceberg of what is happening to housing in the UK.'Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture at the University of East London and author of Big Capital: Who is London for?'Including both previously undocumented details of PFI in housing, and the voices of residents whose health and well-being have been impacted by the process, this book sets out a crucial part of the story of housing privatisation in the uk. This is a hugely important and powerful book, essential reading for scholars, campaigners, policy makers, or anyone with an interest in housing provision.'Pilgrim Tucker, community organiser and campaigner who supported the Grenfell Tower Residents campaign, the Grenfell Action Group'Stuart Hodkinson’s book offers a searing exposé of the policy choices which made Grenfell ‘a disaster foretold’. Combining forensic detail and righteous anger, he describes the multi-faceted attack on public housing and its ethos which underlay this man-made tragedy – privatisation and reliance on a profit-driven private sector, deregulation, and the marginalisation of tenants’ voices and interests. Closely-argued analysis of three PFI schemes – ‘outsourcing on steroids’ in his words – further demonstrates the destructive dynamics of this larger story. Hodkinson concludes with a powerful demand to empower residents, restore regulation and revive public housing. A close reading of this must-read book make it hard to disagree.'John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams:The Rise and Fall of Council Housing‘This is an intricately researched, powerfully written, dramatic and sometimes painful analysis of how private interests have denatured social housing, always tethered to the experiences of the people who live in it. It’s a brilliant, insightful and very human study.’ Zoe Williams, the Guardian journalist'The failings which he exposes are mundane and yet shocking. Anyone who has experienced the disruption and harm of a leak, or the inconvenience of delayed repairs can connect viscerally to these stories of neglect.'Ollie Norman, The London Society -- .Table of ContentsList of boxes, figures and tablesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Grenfell and the return of ‘social murder’1 Privatisation and the death of public housing2 Outsourcing on steroids: regeneration meets the Private Finance Initiative3 Partners for improvement? Corporate vandalism in Islington and Camden4 Not fit for purpose: the Myatts Field North PFI horror show5 The accountability vacuum6 Follow the money: who profits and how7 After Grenfell: safe and secure homes for allAppendix 1 List of formal interviews cited in book

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Book SynopsisWritten by key names in the field, this book explores the impact of digitization and COVID-19 on justice in housing and special needs education. It analyses access to justice, offers recommendations for improvement and provides valuable insights into administrative justice from user perspectives.

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Book SynopsisDespite billions of government dollars spent in the attempt, we are no closer than we were three decades ago to solving the problem of homelessness. Why? And what can we do about it? Tackling these questions, the authors of Ending Homelessness explore the complicated and often dysfunctional relationship between efforts to address homelessness and the realities on the street.Trade ReviewA comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the complexities of the pervasive social and economic problem of homelessness." — The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"This must-read book asks how our wealthy nation ended up with a pervasive homelessness problem … and suggests what we can do to solve it." — Nan Roman, President and CEO, National Alliance to End Homelessness"An important book that I couldn't put down ... comprehensive and practical…. Everyone who cares should read it." — Donna Shalala, President, Clinton FoundationTable of ContentsAre We There Yet? D.W. Burnes An Individual Experiences Homelessness M. McHenry-Edrington Where Are We Now? The New Demographics of Homelessness K. Tobin and J. Murphy Three Decades of Homelessness M.R. Burt What Have We Done (Or Not Done?) A Housing First Approach S. Tsemberis and B.F. Henwood Special Needs Housing R.L. Harris Systems for Homelessness and Housing Assistance J. Khadduri Controversies in the Provision of Services J.A. Wasserman and J.M. Clair Why Aren't We Further? How We've Learned to Embrace Homelessness D.L. DiLeo Homelessness is About Housing S. Crowley Work, Wages, Wealth, and the Roots of Homelessness B. Hardin Rights, Responsibilities, and Homelessness C.J. Whelley and K.W. McCabe What Do We Do? In Pursuit of Quality Data and Programs T. O'Brien Public Opinion, Politics, and the Media P.A.Toro and C. Carlson Community Planning and the End of Homelessness S. Batko The Role of Funders A. Miskey Where Do We Go from Here? D.W. Burnes

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Book SynopsisFrom Britain’s ‘Generation Rent’ to Hong Kong’s notorious ‘cage homes’, societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. The social consequences have been profound, with a lack of affordable housing resulting in overcrowding, homelessness, broken families and, in many countries, a sharp decline in fertility. In Broken Cities, Deborah Potts offers a provocative new perspective on the global housing crisis arguing that the problem lies mainly with demand rather than supply. Potts shows how market-set rates of pay and incomes for vast numbers of households in the world’s largest cities in the global South and North are simply too low to rent or buy any housing that is legal, planned and decent. As the influence of free market economics has increased, the situation has worsened. Potts argues that the crisis needs radical solutions. With the world becoming increasingly urbanized, this book provides a timely and urgent account of one of the most pressing social challenges of the 21st century. Exploring the effects of the housing crisis across the global North and South, Broken Cities is a warning of the greater crises to come if these issues are not addressed.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and devastating book… this is a critical text, without easy comparison, providing a highly readable and remarkably detailed insight into the global housing crisis. It is critical reading for scholars across urban, housing and ‘development’ studies, planning and geography, offering a rallying manifesto for housing activists the world over. We can only hope our political leadership engage with its provocation’. * Regional Studies *Captivating analysis of the global housing crisis. Based on extensive research on housing, Deborah Potts lays bare the paradoxes of the urban housing crisis – household incomes relative to housing costs. * George Owusu, University of Ghana *An evidence-based, historically informed and incisive analytical voice on one of the crucial issues of twenty-first century urban life. The breadth of insight and scope is remarkable, demonstrating beyond any doubt the value of a comparative perspective on global urbanisation. Superbly well written, accessible and supported with carefully compiled and detailed data, this book is a gift to urban residents, urbanists, scholars, practitioners and politicians. Read it! * Jennifer Robinson, University College London *One of the particular strengths of this book is its breadth of comparative reference. Potts insists that analyses of housing in the Global South and the Global North can be conducted within a common conceptual framework... The result is a series of thought-provoking analogies among housing policies that are usually studied in isolation by specialists in different regions of the world. Any housing expert will come away from this book with new insights and new ideas. * Isaac William Martin, Professor of Sociology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of California – San Diego, in Anthropological Forum *A particular strength of the book is its global reach... the book’s main point is to draw parallels between housing problems across the world, with a close eye on contextual detail and differences, but always searching for structural similarities across local histories and politics. Taken together, Broken Cities is a highly readable and informative book that makes an important contribution to the debate on one of the defining features of current urbanization. It will be of key interest to urban and housing scholars and may also serve well as a teaching resource for courses in geography, planning, housing studies and related fields. * Justin Kadi, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Vienna University of Technology in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *Broken Cities talks to housing need in the global North and South. While not intended to be published to coincide with COVID-19, the pandemic highlights the significance of housing quality for wellbeing. This is a scholarly text, in terms of the depth of referencing and data analysis. But it is also a publication written for an interested non-expert audience, with multiple examples to illustrate the key points of the argument... What is evident from this volume is that housing is essential to health and wellbeing. Governments are challenged to rethink housing options, and to recognize the centrality of housing to development * Professor Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester in Environment and Urbanization *A particular strength of the book is its global reach. Potts convincingly argues that there are common underlying forces that determine housing outcomes under capitalism in both the global South and the global North. ... Taken together, Broken Cities is a highly readable and informative book that makes an important contribution to the debate on one of the defining features of current urbanization. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *One of the particular strengths of this book is its breadth of comparative reference. ... a series of thought-provoking analogies among housing policies that are usually studied in isolation by specialists in different regions of the world. Any housing expert will come away from this book with new insights and new ideas. * Anthropological Forum *This is essential reading ... The book enhances the comparative gesture in urban studies as well as the ‘planetary turn’ in gentrification studies. * Progress in Development Studies 2021 *Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Dilemma of Affordable Housing and Big Cities 2. Mismatches between Incomes and Housing Costs: A Global Condition 3. Affordable Urban Housing and the Role of Basic Standards 4. Private Sector Urban Housing Provision: Formal And Informal 5. Squaring the Circle: Social Housing Programmes and Affordable Rents 6. Squaring the Circle: Affordable Urban Homeownership 7. Global Finance, Big Cities and Unaffordable Housing 8. Broken Cities: Unaffordable Housing as the Norm? 9. Broken Cities, Broken Households: The Demographic Impacts of Unaffordable Housing Conclusion Appendix

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Book SynopsisFrom Britain’s ‘Generation Rent’ to Hong Kong’s notorious ‘cage homes’, societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. The social consequences have been profound, with a lack of affordable housing resulting in overcrowding, homelessness, broken families and, in many countries, a sharp decline in fertility. In Broken Cities, Deborah Potts offers a provocative new perspective on the global housing crisis arguing that the problem lies mainly with demand rather than supply. Potts shows how market-set rates of pay and incomes for vast numbers of households in the world’s largest cities in the global South and North are simply too low to rent or buy any housing that is legal, planned and decent. As the influence of free market economics has increased, the situation has worsened. Potts argues that the crisis needs radical solutions. With the world becoming increasingly urbanized, this book provides a timely and urgent account of one of the most pressing social challenges of the 21st century. Exploring the effects of the housing crisis across the global North and South, Broken Cities is a warning of the greater crises to come if these issues are not addressed.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and devastating book… this is a critical text, without easy comparison, providing a highly readable and remarkably detailed insight into the global housing crisis. It is critical reading for scholars across urban, housing and ‘development’ studies, planning and geography, offering a rallying manifesto for housing activists the world over. We can only hope our political leadership engage with its provocation’. * Regional Studies *Captivating analysis of the global housing crisis. Based on extensive research on housing, Deborah Potts lays bare the paradoxes of the urban housing crisis – household incomes relative to housing costs. * George Owusu, University of Ghana *An evidence-based, historically informed and incisive analytical voice on one of the crucial issues of twenty-first century urban life. The breadth of insight and scope is remarkable, demonstrating beyond any doubt the value of a comparative perspective on global urbanisation. Superbly well written, accessible and supported with carefully compiled and detailed data, this book is a gift to urban residents, urbanists, scholars, practitioners and politicians. Read it! * Jennifer Robinson, University College London *One of the particular strengths of this book is its breadth of comparative reference. Potts insists that analyses of housing in the Global South and the Global North can be conducted within a common conceptual framework... The result is a series of thought-provoking analogies among housing policies that are usually studied in isolation by specialists in different regions of the world. Any housing expert will come away from this book with new insights and new ideas. * Isaac William Martin, Professor of Sociology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of California – San Diego, in Anthropological Forum *A particular strength of the book is its global reach... the book’s main point is to draw parallels between housing problems across the world, with a close eye on contextual detail and differences, but always searching for structural similarities across local histories and politics. Taken together, Broken Cities is a highly readable and informative book that makes an important contribution to the debate on one of the defining features of current urbanization. It will be of key interest to urban and housing scholars and may also serve well as a teaching resource for courses in geography, planning, housing studies and related fields. * Justin Kadi, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Vienna University of Technology in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *Broken Cities talks to housing need in the global North and South. While not intended to be published to coincide with COVID-19, the pandemic highlights the significance of housing quality for wellbeing. This is a scholarly text, in terms of the depth of referencing and data analysis. But it is also a publication written for an interested non-expert audience, with multiple examples to illustrate the key points of the argument... What is evident from this volume is that housing is essential to health and wellbeing. Governments are challenged to rethink housing options, and to recognize the centrality of housing to development * Professor Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester in Environment and Urbanization *A particular strength of the book is its global reach. Potts convincingly argues that there are common underlying forces that determine housing outcomes under capitalism in both the global South and the global North. ... Taken together, Broken Cities is a highly readable and informative book that makes an important contribution to the debate on one of the defining features of current urbanization. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *One of the particular strengths of this book is its breadth of comparative reference. ... a series of thought-provoking analogies among housing policies that are usually studied in isolation by specialists in different regions of the world. Any housing expert will come away from this book with new insights and new ideas. * Anthropological Forum *This is essential reading ... The book enhances the comparative gesture in urban studies as well as the ‘planetary turn’ in gentrification studies. * Progress in Development Studies 2021 *Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Dilemma of Affordable Housing and Big Cities 2. Mismatches between Incomes and Housing Costs: A Global Condition 3. Affordable Urban Housing and the Role of Basic Standards 4. Private Sector Urban Housing Provision: Formal And Informal 5. Squaring the Circle: Social Housing Programmes and Affordable Rents 6. Squaring the Circle: Affordable Urban Homeownership 7. Global Finance, Big Cities and Unaffordable Housing 8. Broken Cities: Unaffordable Housing as the Norm? 9. Broken Cities, Broken Households: The Demographic Impacts of Unaffordable Housing Conclusion Appendix

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Book SynopsisHome to eighty thousand people, Accra’s Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal ‘squatters’ means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of the rights to which they are entitled as citizens. The case of Old Fadama is far from unique. Across Africa, over half the population now lives in cities, and a lack of affordable housing means that growing numbers live in similar illegal slum communities, often in appalling conditions. Drawing on rich, ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes as its point of departure the narratives that emerge from the everyday lives and struggles of these people, using the perspective offered by Old Fadama as a means of identifying wider trends and dynamics across African slums. Central to Stacey’s argument is the idea that such slums possess their own structures of governance, grounded in processes of negotiation between slum residents and external actors. In the process, Stacey transforms our understanding not only of slums, but of governance itself, moving us beyond prevailing state-centric approaches to consider how even a society’s most marginal members can play a key role in shaping and contesting state power.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Origins and Destinations 2. Seeking Shelter and Freedom 3. Gaining and Losing Land, and Soft Property 4. Shifting Yam, and Market Place Citizenship 5. Solving Problems and Emerging Authority Conclusions and Policy Perspectives

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Book Synopsis Understudied 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.Trade Review “This is a very useful book for established as well as forming communities. It gives the most complete view of cohousing community life that I have seen. And it will allay many fears related to the question, ‘Can cohousing work for me?’” • Communities Magazine “[This book] is a valuable contribution to the literature on happiness and living well. Bringing together stories of residents in two co-housing projects, one in Japan and another in Canada, Catharine Kingfisher offers insights into a particular vision of living well together, with its pleasures, as well as the trials and tribulations.” • Iza Kavedžija, University of Exeter “This is a very interesting book and a pleasure to read—Kingfisher writes well, and the book has many interesting ideas.” • Gordon Mathews, The Chinese University of Hong Kong “I think it is unusual and unusually interesting. It takes on the challenge of dragging happiness/wellbeing studies into a much needed ‘social’ direction.” • John Clarke, The Open UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: How Urban Cohousing Communities Can Expand How We Think about Wellbeing Chapter 1. Kankanmori and Quayside Village: An Overview Chapter 2. Quayside Village Chapter 3. Kankanmori Chapter 4. The Exchanges Conclusion: Policies of Wellbeing Appendix: The Film Shorts References Index

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