Housing and homelessness Books
Nova Science Publishers Inc Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Housing Needs &
Book SynopsisEach year, approximately 25,000 youth exit the foster care system before being reunified with their family of origin, being adopted, or achieving another permanent living arrangement. These youth often have limited resources with which to secure safe and stable housing, which leaves them at heightened risk of experiencing homelessness. This book documents a series of research activities designed to address knowledge gaps related to the housing options available to youth who have aged out of foster care. Furthermore, this book describes the extent to which -- and how -- communities are using Family Unification Program (FUP) to support youth; reviews the characteristics of the young people, their risk of homelessness, and the barriers they face in securing stable housing, along with relevant federal and, to a lesser extent, state policies; and describes a wide range of housing programs for young people aging out of foster care, present a program typology, and conclude with the identification of a small group of innovative housing programs that may warrant closer exploration.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Housing Assistance Programs for
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Ending Chronic Homelessness: Federal Strategy &
Book SynopsisChronically homeless individuals are those who spend long periods of time living on the street or other places not meant for human habitation, and who have one or more disabilities, frequently including mental illnesses and substance use disorders. In the 2014 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness, over 84,000 individuals met the definition of chronically homeless, down from more than 120,000 in 2008. In part the decline is due to the federal governments plan, announced in 2002, to end chronic homelessness within 10 years. The target date has since been extended to 2017. Among the federal programs focused on ending chronic homelessness are the HUD Homelessness Assistance Grants, the HUD and Veterans Affairs Supported Housing Program (HUD-VASH), and several HUD demonstration programs. One of the reasons that federal programs have devoted resources to ending chronic homelessness is studies finding that individuals who experience it, particularly those with serious mental illness, use many expensive services often paid through public sources, including emergency room visits, inpatient hospitalisations, and law enforcement and jail time. Even emergency shelter resources can be costly. In addition to potential ethical reasons for ending chronic homelessness, doing so could reduce costs in providing assistance to this population. This book summarises the research surrounding permanent supportive housing (PSH) for chronically homeless individuals. In doing so, it attempts to examine the nuance in the research to determine where PSH could be considered successful and where gaps may remain. The book discusses what it means to be chronically homeless, the way in which assistance for chronically homeless individuals has evolved, and how federal programs target assistance to individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. In addition, it summarises the research regarding chronically homeless individuals who move into PSH.
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc Door is Open, The
Book Synopsis'The Door Is Open' is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver's downtown eastside. In an area most renowned for its shocking social ills, and the notorious distinction of holding the country's "very poorest forward sortation area of all 7,000 postal prefixes," Bart Campbell dismantles our hard-held notions about poverty, the disenfranchised, substance abuse, and the nature of charity.'The Door Is Open' is one man's story of a transformative journey into the complicated and complex world of poverty. Finalist BC Book Prize Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize "His narrative reads like a 1930s 'noir' journey into the seamier sides of cities once prowled by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. It is this straight-up style that is both the book's strength and, on occasion, its only weak link. Readers looking for a sense of hope will find little of it in Campbell'sgritty descriptions. Indeed, some readers might mistake his unrelenting portrayl of skid row inhabitants as representative of the homeless population across Canada, most of whom are not victims of addiction or mental illness, but of an economy that has been stacked against them for most of their lives, if not for generations before." - Quill & Quire "What is most refreshing about Campbell's memoir is that it neither self-aggrandizes nor propagates a misinformed political message. His work has an objective tone and each chapter is well researched...this is one of the best books I've read all year." - Discorder Finalist City of Vancouver Book Prize
£12.34
Arcade Publishing Poverty Safari
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Transcript Verlag Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in
Book SynopsisThrough a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally registered properties into informality. Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations. These practices are embedded in complex urban tenure dynamics that prevail in post-colonial societies; societies, in which the state's imposition of predominantly western forms of tenure and property rights ignore the anthropological nature of housing.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Development-Induced Displacement & Resettlement::
Book SynopsisThis book explores the issue of development-induced resettlement, with a particular emphasis on the humanitarian, legal, and social aspects of this problem. Today, so-called development-induced displacement and resettlement' (DIDR) is one of the dominant causes of internal spatial mobility worldwide. Each year over 15 million people are forced to abandon their homes to make space for economic development infrastructure. The construction of dams and irrigation projects, the expansion of communication networks, urbanization and re-urbanization, the extraction and transportation of mineral resources, forced evictions in urban areas, and population redistribution schemes count among the many possible causes. Terminski aims to present the issue of development-caused displacement as a highly diverse, global social problem occurring in all regions of the world. As a human rights issue it poses a challenge to public international law and to institutions providing humanitarian assistance. A significant part of this book is devoted to the current dynamics of development-caused resettlement in Europe, which has been neglected in the academic literature so far.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Putting Children First – New Frontiers in the
Book SynopsisDespite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and often results in unreversed damage to the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty and its solutions by bringing together applied research from across the continent. With the Sustainable Development Goals having opened up an important space for the fight against child poverty, not least by broadening its conceptualization to be multidimensional, this collection aims to push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives and exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty. Furthermore, it examines policy options that work to address this critical challenge.
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Penn State University Press Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation 19
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Zondervan Homeless at Harvard
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Houghton Mifflin 200 a Day Living on Almost Nothing in America
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Random House USA Inc Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which noth
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Random House USA Inc Evicted
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iUniverse HE DIDNT DIE EASY The Search for Hope Amid Poverty War and Genocide
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iUniverse Tell Me Your Story
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iUniverse He Didnt Die Easy The Search for Hope Amid Poverty War and Genocide
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Dordt College Press The Problem of Poverty
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp A Day at the Fare
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LEGARE STREET PR London Labour and the London Poor
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LEGARE STREET PR London Labour and the London Poor
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LEGARE STREET PR Society in America
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LEGARE STREET PR Society in America
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LEGARE STREET PR London Labour and the London Poor a Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work Those That Cannot Work and Those That Will not Work
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LEGARE STREET PR London Labour and the London Poor a Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work Those That Cannot Work and Those That Will not Work
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LEGARE STREET PR London Labour and the London Poor
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LEGARE STREET PR London Labour and the London Poor
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LEGARE STREET PR Fourth seventh Report of The Windermere And Troutbeck Comittees On Boarding Out Pauper Children
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LEGARE STREET PR A A Plea For Free Drinking Fountains In The Metropolis
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Legare Street Press The The Children of the Poor
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LEGARE STREET PR Housing of the Working Classes
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Legare Street Press Problems of Indian Poverty
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Legare Street Press HandBook for Friendly Visitors Among the Poor
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Legare Street Press The The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. Ed. by Sir T. Bernard. 1St40Th Report 17971817
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Legare Street Press Report From The Joint Select Committee Of The House Of Lords And The House Of Commons On Housing Of The Working Classes
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Legare Street Press Le Le Magasin Des Pauvres Artisans Domestiques Et Gens De La Campagne Par Madame Le Prince De Beaumont......
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Legare Street Press On Cases Of Death By Starvation And Extreme Distress Among The Humbler Classes
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Legare Street Press The The New Republic. A Scheme to Abolish Poverty.The Antipoverty Society on the American Plan
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Legare Street Press A A Supplicacyon for the Beggers
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Legare Street Press Account of the Poor Fund and Other Charities
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Legare Street Press London Street Arabs
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Legare Street Press New Homes for old Public Housing in Europe and America
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Legare Street Press The The Tenement House Problem Volume 1
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Legare Street Press Poor law Unions a Statement of the Names of the Several Unions and Poor law Parishes in England and Wales and of the Population Area and Rateable Value Thereof in 1881
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Legare Street Press Bridging the Gap
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Legare Street Press Birth Poverty And WealthA Study Of Infant Mortality
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Legare Street Press Problems Of Poverty
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Legare Street Press A A Handy Book for Guardians of the Poor
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Legare Street Press Le Magasin Des Pauvres
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