Housing and homelessness Books

Book SynopsisThis book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing. The wider implications of policy and design are examined through a series of case studies of new housing projects in the UK and the Netherlands. Dutch interdisciplinary design and modern methods of construction are widely considered to be of the highest quality from which much can be learned and understood. This new guide offers architects the best practice for the design, policy and construction of new homes. The author considers proposals for the Thames Gateway and government incentives to create better quality housing, including the 60,000 house and design reviews. The wider implications of skills and training of architects, planners, design professionals and those parties involved in housing are also addressed. Table of ContentsPart 1: Design Quality in the Netherlands 1. Design Quality in Dutch Housing 2. Case Studies of New Housing in the Netherlands Part 2: Design Quality in the United Kingdom 3. Design Quality in Housing in the United Kingdom 4. Case Studies of New Housing in the UK 5. Low and High-Rise Doll's Houses and Dan Dare Steel and Glass Towers? Design Quality in the Thames Gateway Part 3: Learning from the Netherlands, Design Quality in New Housing in the UK and the Netherlands 6. Findings and Recommendations of Design Quality in the UK and in the Netherlands

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

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Book SynopsisJames Beard Awardwinning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a tableeating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at that table? In The Meth Lunches, Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect. Whether it's heirloom vegetables or a block of neon-yellow government cheese, food is both a basic necessity and a nuanced litmus test: what and how we eat reflects our communities, our cultures, and our place in the world. The Meth Lunches gives a glimpse into the lives of people living in Foster's Las Vegas communitythe grocery store cashier who feels safer surrounded by food after surviving a childhood of hunger; the inmate baking a birthday cake with coffee

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Book SynopsisLorrie Palmer is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Towson University, USA. She has published widely on film history, digital aesthetics, race, gender and technology in film and television, genre, and cinematic urban architecture.Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging and very necessary volume grapples with what it means for public housing to become an image. Across twelve strikingly argued chapters, Palmer and her contributors show how film and television not only materially contribute to that image on a global scale, but how they can iterate, complicate, or question it and, in doing so, redefine our image of the home. -- Erica Stein, Vassar College, USAHome Screens is a must read for anyone interested in government-financed housing in both material reality and cinematic space. Palmer and her contributors deftly examine how diverse tenants try to create a sense of “home” in its contained, often precarious spaces. -- Merrill Schleier, University of the Pacific, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Public housing in global film and television - Lorrie Palmer I: Design, architecture and space 1. Uncanny architecture: Haunted structures in Candyman and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - Lorrie Palmer 2. Die architekten (1990): East/west ideology, concrete topography and the shadow of plattenbau - Heike Kumpf and Kirsten Kumpf Baele 3. Architect and amateur documentarian, Yitzhak Perlstein: Planning Israeli public housing (1960–70) - Daphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan 4. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma (1962): INA-Casa public housing and remaking Rome’s postwar social landscape - Alberto Lo Pinto 5. Aerial transitions: Drones and domestic space in the Banlieue - Isabelle McNeill II: Spatialization of race, class and gender 6. Precarious homes in Britain and France – girlhood, escape and dance in Fish Tank and Divines - Anna Viola Sborgi 7. Cooley High, Cabrini-Green and early-onset rusting in Chicago - Michael D. Dwyer 8. Franklin Wong’s Below the Lion Rock television series: Community dialogue in 1970s Hong Kong public housing - Chung-kin Tsang 9. Within the public housing flats: Interiorization of class drama in Singapore cinema - Meisen Wong and Chua Beng Huat III: Home screens: Public housing in serialized television drama of The Wire, Treme, and Show Me a Hero 10. Ignoring women and communities of care: Public housing in The Wire - Kalima Young 11. ‘People need to come home’: Treme, Abandoned housing and post-Katrina New Orleans - Helen Morgan Parmett 12. Public housing, social problems and defensible space in David Simon’s show me a hero - Steve Macek Further Viewing Index

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Book SynopsisReading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to the learning and social inclusion agenda, have expanded to include a wide range of groups within society, including people with visual impairments (VIPs). This under-researched area is the focus of this book. Library-based VIP reading groups are interesting on many levels. Given that these groups predominantly use audio versions of the text (rather than print), this links to debates about the changing nature of reading in a multi-modal age. This book discusses whether contemporary society still defines reading as a visual activity or whether technological developments have led to a broadening of the definition of reading. The author goes on to discuss how policy is translated into practice within the library context and whether the wide range of reading groups linked to libraries suggests that libraries understand and are taking the socTrade Review’For anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the role of the reading group - particularly the impact they have on the lives of blind and partially sighted people - this book is a must. Drawing on in-depth, participatory research, Eileen Hyder sets the reading group in the context of the readers’ daily lives - and also the daily lives of the libraries where they meet.’ John Vincent, The Network - tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives and galleries, UK ’Those who take part in or run reading groups for people with visual impairments, and anyone with an interest in disability studies, will welcome this thoughtful and well-researched book. Hyder discusses important issues about social inclusion, as well as providing practical suggestions for the future.’ Jenny Hartley, University of Roehampton, UK ’Eileen Hyder uses one reading group for visually impaired people as a case study to raise thought-provoking questions about reading groups in general, about reading, about life-long learning, and about the role libraries play in the social inclusion of marginalized populations. As publishers explore new formats that might replace print books, and readers discover new ways to enjoy literature, will blind people be at the forefront of new reading technologies and methods, or continue to lag behind? How will librarians advocate for universal access to their collections? Reading Groups, Libraries and Social Inclusion will be a valuable resource for librarians, educators, blind and partially sighted people and any reader interested in the future of the book.’ Georgina Kleege, University of California, Berkeley, USA ’I now feel far more informed about not only reading groups but the issues faced by VIPs and would recommend this book to anyone involved in running reading groups, working with VIPs or who are interested in the idea of setting up groups of this nature. I also think it would be of interest to anyone with a passion for encouragiTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Reading Histories; Chapter 3 Reading Matters; Chapter 4 Reading Groups and Social Justice; Chapter 5 Libraries, Reading Groups and Lifelong Learning; Chapter 6 A Broader Picture;

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Book SynopsisSean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.

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Book SynopsisThe last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race and gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education and income. Millions of working-class Americans have their opportunity blocked by exclusionary snob zoning. These government policies make housing unaffordable, frustrate the goals of the civil rights movement, and lock in inequality in our urban and suburban landscapes.Through moving accounts of families excluded from economic and social opportunity as they are hemmed in through "new redlining" that limits the type of housing that can be built, Richard Kahlenberg vividly illustrates why America has a housing crisis. He also illustrates why economic segregation matters since where you live affects access to transportation, employment opportunities, decent health care, and good schools. He shows that housing choice has been socially engineered to the benefit of the affluent, and, that astonishingly the most restrictive zoning is found in politically liberal cities where racial views are more progressive.Despite this there is hope. Kahlenberg tells the inspiring stories of growing number of local and national movements working to tear down the walls that inflicts so much damage on the lives of millions of Americans.

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Book Synopsis"Enthralling; it is well worth the trip.” --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York’s Blackwell’s Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative through the voices of the island’s inhabitants. We also hear from the era’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated undercover reporter Nellie Bly. And we follow the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell’s residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. Damnation Island shows how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains.

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Book SynopsisSelf-neglect and hoarding is present in 1 of 5 social work cases in mental health and older people's services. These cases can be the most alarming and challenging on a social worker's caseload.A skilled, thorough risk assessment of the behaviours of self-neglect is needed in order to ensure effective care and support is available. This guide offers practical and applicable tools and solutions for all professionals involved in working with people who self-neglect. It includes tips for assessment and decision-making in the support process, and updates following the implementation of the Care Act 2014, which deemed self-neglect a safeguarding matter.Trade ReviewThis book is a further step towards building a successful long-term management strategy for self-neglect and hoarding, rather than just a guide focusing on resolving the obvious, outward manifestations. It provides a great example of a 'journey of support' for the affected individual whilst not forgetting the legal obligations and moral duties of professionals. I'm confident, with the toolkit for a patient centred approach outlined in this book, our management of this disorder, with its considerable societal risks, will improve dramatically. -- Dr. Roberta Caiazza, HCPC registered Senior Clinical PsychologistSelf-Neglect and Hoarding contains much of the information practitioners will need in working with self-neglect. Barnett's emphasis throughout is on a person-centred approach to this important issue. -- Dr. David Orr, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of SussexTable of Contents1. Self-Neglect and Hoarding 2. How Self-Neglect Affects People's Lives. 3. Themes Arising from Serious Case Reviews or Safeguarding Adult Reviews. 4. Safeguarding those who Self-Neglect under the Care Act 2016. 5. Therapeutic Engagement. 6. Assessment. 7. Defensible Decision Making. 8. Supporting the Practitioner. 9. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisResponding to the growing number of psychologically-informed services for people experiencing social exclusion and, in particular, homelessness, this book gives professionals the information and understanding they need to be fully informed in their practice with this client group. It begins with theory, looking at the psychology of social exclusion and the processes that underlie it, and considers the relationship between trauma, complex needs, homelessness and social exclusion. Presenting practical interventions and case studies, the authors then reveal what makes an effective service in practice and a client perspective on social exclusion and recovery is provided.This is essential reading for all those involved in developing services that meet the needs of socially excluded people with histories of complex trauma or presentations of complex needs, including those who are homeless, refugees and asylum seekers, Traveller and Roma communities and people involved with the criminal justice system.Trade ReviewBased on his many years' work with some of society's most excluded and alienated people, Cockersell has coined the term 'compound trauma' and produced a vivid account of how life goes wrong, and what we can do about it. By drawing on modern psychoanalytic thinking, developmental neurobiology and current ideas of therapeutic environments, he presents the most complex problems in an accessible and engaging way. -- Rex Haigh, Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Therapeutic Environments and Relational Health, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Nottingham UniversityPeter Cockersell sets out a compelling and plausible narrative for how homelessness can follow successive experiences of trauma and abandonment rather than just being the result of "bad choices". His psychodynamic model of understanding social exclusion gives us a better way of understanding why some homeless people seem to reject help - and some real clues as to how we can change our practice to work more effectively for such people. -- Dr Philip Timms FRCPsych, Honorary Senior Lecturer, King’s College LondonBecoming homeless is a traumatic experience, but very, very often it is just one more such experience in a life characterised by exclusion, neglect and abuse. A powerful and hopeful call for us to recognise how our common humanity makes us all 'interdependent', this new book will help colleagues right across the homeless sector (and beyond) reflect on the central importance of building and modelling good quality relationships. As they explore the many paradoxes that inhabit the world of homelessness - clients who reject care may need the most care, caring for others can help us care for ourselves - Peter Cockersell and colleagues challenge us to recognise multi-morbidity as a condition in its own right, and one that demands a long-term, psychologically informed, compassionate response. If you work in the homelessness sector you need to read this book. -- Alex Bax, Chief Executive, PathwayTable of ContentsPart 1. Social Exclusion as a Psychosocial Problem, and Psychology as a Critical Part of the Response. Section 1. Understanding the Problem. 1. Social Exclusion, Complex Needs and Homelessness. Peter Cockersell. 2. Compound Trauma and Complex Needs. Peter Cockersell. 3. The Process of Social Exclusion. Peter Cockersell. Section 2. Solutions: Principles of Practice. 4. A Psychological Perspective on Recovery. Peter Cockersell. 5. Applying Psychology as a Response to the Impact of Social Exclusion: PIE and Psychotherapy in Homelessness Services. Peter Cockersell. Part 2. A Psychological Perspective on Social Exclusion in Practice and Experience. Section 3. Solutions: Practice and Experience. 6. Pre-treatment Therapy Approach for Single Homeless People. John Connolly. 7. Psychotherapy with Homeless Women. Nicola Saunders. 8. PIE-oneering Psychological Integration in Homeless Hostels. Dr Emma Williamson. 9. PIE: What the People Say. Catriona Reid. 10. Streetlight: Homeless Psychotherapy in Britain's Happiest Town. Dr Sally Read. 11. I Held the Ticket in My Hand. Terry Hutton. Part 3. Psychology Applied to the System of Care. Section 4. Conclusion: Contextualising the Problem and Responses in the Culture and System of Care. 12. The Problem and Potential of Complexity. Peter Cockersell. 13. The Treatment of Multi-Morbidity. Peter Cockersell. 14. The Dependency Paradox. Dr Emma Williamson.

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Book SynopsisExperiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds “from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Revisiting the housing question: The potentialities of urban commoning Stavros Stavrides and Penny Travlou Part I Informal housing, infrastructures and commoning practices 1 Weaving commons in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil): Urgency, recognition, convergence Ana Fernandes, Glória Cecília Figueiredo and Gabriela Leandro Pereira 2 Activists infrastructures and commoning ‘from below’: The case of Cheetah Camp, Mumbai Lalitha Kamath and Purva Dewoolkar 3 Subaltern place as an infrastructure of consolidation: Settling an informal neighbourhood in Mumbai Himanshu Burte 4 Commoning Aboriginal ethno-architecture: Indigenous housing experiences in Australia Angus Cameron and Penny Travlou 5 Feeding together: The revolution starts in the kitchen Marc Gavaldà and Claudio Cattaneo Part II Cooperatives, squats and housing struggles 6 Hybrid commons: Housing cooperatives in Zurich Irina Davidovici 7 Urban commoning and popular power: The ‘autonomous neighbourhoods’ in Mexico City Stavros Stavrides 8 Berlin and the city as commons Mathias Heyden in conversation with Christian Hiller, Anh-Linh Ngo and Max Kaldenhoff 9 Refugee housing squats as shared heterotopias: The case of City Plaza Athens squat Nikolas Kanavaris 10 The Dandara community-occupation: Destitution-constitution movements towards urban commons in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) Lucia Capanema Alvares, João B. M. Tonucci Filho and Joviano Maia Mayer Part III In defence of the collective right to housing 11 Materializing the self-management: Tracking the commons in Yugoslav housing economy Jelica Jovanovic 12 A Greek activist’s reflections on the housing struggles and the movement against foreclosures in Athens Tonia Katerini 13 The power of public participation: Socio-economic impacts of urban development on the local commons in Egypt Mohamed Magdi Hagras 14 From social urbanism to strategies of collective action in Medellin Penny Travlou in conversation with Catalina Ortiz and Harry Smith 15 Housing policy as a form of urban governance: The Barbican Estate and the enclosure of the urban commons Ioanna Piniara Epilogue: Congregations: On the inhabitation of urban humans AbduMaliq Simone Index

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisA strange and beautiful journey through the streets of London and the wilds of Jura.

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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 ReviewWhen 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 sport. 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 Cup All 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)

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Book SynopsisFor fourteen remarkable years, the Sophia Project in California served over one hundred mothers and children, all of whom were at risk of or had experienced homelessness and abuse.Drawing on the principles of Camphill and a Waldorf approach to child development, staff worked intensively with families, introducing them to daily rhythms and routines, assisting with job applications, shopping and tax forms, and even tutoring to pass tests and exams. Over a period of five years, the families regained confidence and independence. None returned to homelessness or abuse.Same Light, Many Candles is a definitive account of the Sophia Project: its origins, the journey, the families and its eventual end. Both moving and inspiring, it powerfully demonstrates the effect on real lives of structured, caring intervention based on Waldorf principles.

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Book SynopsisIn this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of the veritable army of homeless men that swept across America after the Civil War and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process.Trade Review"Homelessness in America did not begin during the Depression, but after the Civil War, when 'hobo-hemia' threatened to rule the nation's roads and dominate its cities. Todd DePastino's history of the disaffected on the move breaks new ground, explaining how the hobo army prompted radical changes in the social order and economy that persist today." - Lee Milazzo, Dallas Morning News"

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Book SynopsisA personal account of one man's struggle with homelessness and alcoholism, this is a book which seeks to challenge perceptions about those on the margins of American contemporary life. It outlines the author's amazing optimism and endurance in the face of hunger, dead-end jobs and abusive drinking.

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Book SynopsisThough New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it spent decades as an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and '80s Manhattan. Those decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and European-style squatting into something never before seen in the United States. Ours to Lose tells the oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership. Amy Starecheski here not only tells a little-known New York story, she also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in post-recession America.

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Book SynopsisThe most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.

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Book SynopsisAcclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world.Trade Review"For more than seven decades, business leaders, politicians, and would-be entrepreneurs have tried to unravel the secrets of Silicon Valley. In a little more than one hundred powerful, haunting pages, Meehan and Turner have captured a side of the Valley rarely seen: the deeply inequitable landscape of contingent and disproportionately foreign-born labor that makes its high-tech magic possible. Humane, insightful, and deeply compelling, this book tells the story of Silicon Valley in a completely new and utterly magnetic way."--Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America "It is a Silicon Valley rarely described and never shown that photographer Mary Beth Meehan sought to document. . . . Without descending into pathos, she reveals the striking contrasts between the world of start-ups and that in which their employees live. . . . But underneath, Meehan also depicts another, more subtle dissonance--between the way Silicon Valley sees itself, and the way it really is."-- "Le Monde" "Meehan's photographs provide a compelling cross section of peoples and places in the Valley, featuring hidden and untold stories. The photographs are excellent, the selection is clever and balanced, and the accompanying texts are well-written and engaging."--Phillip Prodger, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsThe Valley on the Hill Fred Turner Photographs and Stories Mary Beth Meehan Cristobal Ravi and Gouthami Victor Warren Justyna Teresa Mary Diane Abraham and Brenda Ariana and Elijah Mark Imelda Richard Leslie Geraldine Jolea Melissa and Steve Jon Gee and Virginia Branton and Shirley Konstance Aurora Erfan Ted Elisa and Family Elizabeth Afterword Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisKahn examines the impact of sex role stereotyping on the electability of women candidates, and as a central factor in the conduct and consequences of statewide campaigns.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Stereotypes in Statewide Campaigns 3. Gender Differences in Campaign Appeals for the U.S. Senate 4. Differences in Campaign Coverage: An Examination of U.S. Senate Races 5. The Impact of Coverage Differences and Sex Stereotypes 6. Differences in Campaign Appeals for Governor 7. Press Coverage of Male and Female Candidates for Governor 8. New Coverage and Gender in Gubernatorial Campaigns: An Experimental Study of the Female Candidate's "Potential" Advantage 9. The Electoral Consequences of Stereotypes 10. Conclusions and Implications

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis unique volume highlights a major public health problem: the plight of vulnerable children in the foster care and homelessness systems. Within a social justice framework, Cheryl Zlotnick and her contributors give these children a voice to express the oppression, bias, racism, and power differentials underlying their care. By viewing these children as members of transitional families, this book describes how to reduce treatment disparities and unify service systems. It is a must-read that will change your views of how to best understand and care for these children. -- Ellen L. Bassuk, founder, The National Center on Family Homelessness A well-researched and valuable addition to the literature on homelessness... This book should help increase awareness of the needs of this very vulnerable population. PsycCritiques An important contribution to the field of child welfare. Journal of Children and Poverty [The book] complements well developmental research... But, it does much more as it provides compelling examples for other organizations and professionals to help foster children and families in need. Journal of Youth and AdolescenceTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Theories of Practice with Transitional Families 1. Transitional Families: Where Do I Begin?, by Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann DeVoss 2. "We Don't Get Whuppings Here Anymore": Toward a Collaborative, Ecological Model of Parenting, by Marguerite A. Wright 3. Giving Voice: An Exploration of the Integration of Social Justice and Infant Mental Health, by Erica Torres and Kathryn Orfirer Part II. Preparing the Organization for Its Work with Transitional Families 4. Letting Some Air into the Room: Opening Agency Space for Considerations of Culture and Power, by Lisa R. Berndt 5. Rediscovering Positive Work Relationships Within a Diverse Relationship-Based Organization: Serving Children in Transition, by Karen Thomas Part III. Promising Programs and Culturally Informed Interventions 6. Transforming Shame: Allowing Memories in Foster Care to Inform Interventions with Foster Youth, by Lou Felipe 7. Crossing the Border and Facing the System: Challenges Immigrant Families Experience When a Child Is Removed from Their Care and Placed into the Child Welfare System, by Rosario Murga-Kusnir 8. "I Am Bad!", by Roberto Macias Sanchez 9. "When Do I Get to Go Home?", by Peggy Pearson 10. The CATS Project: Helping Families Land on Their Feet, by Vance Hitchner Part IV. Needs for the Future 11. A Systems Dilemma: Intergenerational Foster Care and Homelessness, by Cheryl Zlotnick List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis unique volume highlights a major public health problem: the plight of vulnerable children in the foster care and homelessness systems. Within a social justice framework, Cheryl Zlotnick and her contributors give these children a voice to express the oppression, bias, racism, and power differentials underlying their care. By viewing these children as members of transitional families, this book describes how to reduce treatment disparities and unify service systems. It is a must-read that will change your views of how to best understand and care for these children. -- Ellen L. Bassuk, founder, The National Center on Family Homelessness A well-researched and valuable addition to the literature on homelessness... This book should help increase awareness of the needs of this very vulnerable population. PsycCritiques An important contribution to the field of child welfare. Journal of Children and Poverty [The book] complements well developmental research... But, it does much more as it provides compelling examples for other organizations and professionals to help foster children and families in need. Journal of Youth and AdolescenceTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Theories of Practice with Transitional Families 1. Transitional Families: Where Do I Begin?, by Cheryl Zlotnick and Luann DeVoss 2. "We Don't Get Whuppings Here Anymore": Toward a Collaborative, Ecological Model of Parenting, by Marguerite A. Wright 3. Giving Voice: An Exploration of the Integration of Social Justice and Infant Mental Health, by Erica Torres and Kathryn Orfirer Part II. Preparing the Organization for Its Work with Transitional Families 4. Letting Some Air into the Room: Opening Agency Space for Considerations of Culture and Power, by Lisa R. Berndt 5. Rediscovering Positive Work Relationships Within a Diverse Relationship-Based Organization: Serving Children in Transition, by Karen Thomas Part III. Promising Programs and Culturally Informed Interventions 6. Transforming Shame: Allowing Memories in Foster Care to Inform Interventions with Foster Youth, by Lou Felipe 7. Crossing the Border and Facing the System: Challenges Immigrant Families Experience When a Child Is Removed from Their Care and Placed into the Child Welfare System, by Rosario Murga-Kusnir 8. "I Am Bad!", by Roberto Macias Sanchez 9. "When Do I Get to Go Home?", by Peggy Pearson 10. The CATS Project: Helping Families Land on Their Feet, by Vance Hitchner Part IV. Needs for the Future 11. A Systems Dilemma: Intergenerational Foster Care and Homelessness, by Cheryl Zlotnick List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.Trade ReviewPaige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful real estate developers long before the era of mass suburbanization. An essential text for understanding and grappling with the inequalities embedded within today’s metropolitan landscapes. -- Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaThis book is a remarkable achievement. Glotzer tells an eye-opening story about how real estate developers shaped a racially segregated Baltimore—and through their influence and example, the larger United States. By following the paper trail, we learn that racially prejudiced homeowners and government policymakers were not solely to blame, but rather were operating with a rulebook written by capitalist real estate interests who tied profits to racial exclusion for more than a century. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeIn How the Suburbs Were Segregated, Glotzer offers a fresh and original history of suburban real estate development. Uncovering land ownership patterns and financing strategies in north Baltimore since the early nineteenth century, Glotzer tells the story of racial exclusion and residential segregation as it has never been told. -- Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the BayGlotzer tackles a complicated subject with nuance and an attention to detail that is remarkable. While there are many highly acclaimed books on the history of housing segregation and racial exclusion in suburbia, none of these have approached the topic from the perspective of developers and capital investors, much less followed the money, in the way Glotzer has. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Flows2. Infrastructure3. Boundaries4. Standards5. Policies6. AdaptationsConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s separate and unequal living patterns. Leading scholars and practitioners, including civil rights advocates, affordable housing developers, elected officials, and fair housing lawyers, discuss responses to residential segregation.Trade Review[The Dream Revisited] is probably the most intelligent and thoughtful read on segregation in recent years. Despite highlighting so many debates and differences, I consider it a hopeful and useful policy tool. -- Anne B. Shlay, Georgia State University * Journal of Urban Affairs *This well-organized book makes a significant contribution to recent research on housing segregation in the US. * Choice *This book would be a great supplementary text for courses in planning, housing, sociology or geography. Not only does the book help us to understand the complexities of segregation and ways to deal with it, but just as important, Ellen and Steil show us how much we can learn from conversations with people with different viewpoints. -- David P. Varady, University of Cincinnati * Journal of Housing and the Built Environment *Likely to be the leading reference point for discussion and action for years to come, this must-read volume offers pointed debate among a who’s who of scholars and practitioners. One would need a small library to cover so much critical terrain half as well. More importantly, the dozens of diverse contributors are willing to squarely face fundamental questions about whether racial and economic integration is, in fact, worthwhile for America and, if so, how it can be achieved at a time of dramatic social and technological change. -- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President, Inclusive Economies and Markets, Ford FoundationThe deep engagement and spirited debate found in The Dream Revisited make it a must-read for political leaders, housing advocates, and researchers seeking to understand the causes and consequences of segregation in America. Segregation anchors our nation’s schools, neighborhoods, and families in inequality. Through a wide range of perspectives penned by top scholars, Ellen and Steil’s volume helps us understand not only how we are divided but how we might finally address one of America’s most vexing problems. -- Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityFifty-five years since Martin Luther King’s speech, racial and economic segregation persist. Why? The Dream Revisited is a compelling compilation of the most up-to-date research and policy debate on the most crucial question of our day: how to produce racial and economic equality. It is both a wonderful introduction to these intersecting fields and a great resource for scholars and students of these topics. -- Wendell E. Pritchett, Presidential Professor of Law and Education, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Meaning of SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 1: Why Integration?Discussion 2: Comparative Perspectives on SegregationDiscussion 3: Neighborhood Income SegregationDiscussion 4: Suburban Poverty and SegregationDiscussion 5: The Relationship Between Residential and School SegregationPart II: Causes of Contemporary Racial SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 6: Ending Segregation: Our Progress TodayDiscussion 7: The Stubborn Persistence of Racial SegregationDiscussion 8: Implicit Bias and SegregationPart III: Consequences of SegregationIntroductionDiscussion 9: Explaining Ferguson Through Place and RaceDiscussion 10: Segregation and Law EnforcementDiscussion 11: Segregation and HealthDiscussion 12: Segregation and the Financial CrisisDiscussion 13: Segregation and PoliticsPart IV: Policy ImplicationsIntroductionDiscussion 14: The Future of the Fair Housing ActDiscussion 15: Affirmatively Furthering Fair HousingDiscussion 16: Balancing Investments in People and PlaceDiscussion 17: Addressing Neighborhood DisinvestmentDiscussion 18: Place-Based Affirmative ActionDiscussion 19: Selecting Neighborhoods for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit DevelopmentsDiscussion 20: Public Housing and Deconcentrating PovertyDiscussion 21: Creating Mixed-Income Housing Through Inclusionary ZoningDiscussion 22: Neighborhoods, Opportunities, and the Housing Choice Voucher ProgramDiscussion 23: Making Vouchers More MobileDiscussion 24: Gentrification and the Promise of IntegrationDiscussion 25: Community Preferences and Fair HousingConclusionContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Extends the work Birk did in her first book, Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest (2015) . Both books critically examine the institutions and policies that sought to serve vulnerable rural populations. . . . Taken together, this scholarship is essential for anyone interested in understanding how ideas about farming and family shaped the experiences of America's rural poor and marginalized people." --H-Net Reviews"This well-written and researched book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the role that the poor farm played in welfare strategies for rural Americans." --Kansas History"A well-argued book based on impressive research and organized in a set of well-constructed chapters. It is an impressive contribution to the history of American social welfare systems and to American rural life from 1870s to 1930." --Missouri Historical Review"Informative and thoroughly researched, The Fundamental Institution tells the largely unknown story of America’s poor farms. Megan Birk argues persuasively that white rural poverty was commonplace, and poor farms were an essential part of localized public welfare systems until the 1930s. A valuable study."--Molly Ladd-Taylor, author of Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 The Founding of Community Institutions 152 Populations and Conditions 463 Farming for the County 744 Poor Farm Women 1045 The Poor Farm and Mental Health Care 1306 Old Age and Poor Farm Residency 1547 Poor Farms and Health Care 1758 Crisis and Transition 198Epilogue 216Appendix 221Notes 223Bibliography 259Index 283

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Book SynopsisSocial Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.Trade ReviewCovering Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran and Israel, [this book is] a worthy overview of an oft-overlooked typology in the region. * RIBA Journal *Social housing is an architectural effort to engage social issues, and that places this well-edited, clearly organized, tightly written book firmly on essential reading lists for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers. * CAA Reviews *Table of Contents1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East / Kıvanç Kılınç, Mohammad GharipourPart I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing / Eliana Abu-Hamdi3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Mohamed Elshahed4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey / Bülent BatumanPart II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia / Nancy Demerdash6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948–1953 / Yael Allweil7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity / Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait / Mae Al-AnsariPart III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements / Noam Shoked10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945–1960 / Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir / Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanç Kılınç, and Ahenk YılmazIndex

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Book SynopsisSocial Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.Trade ReviewCovering Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran and Israel, [this book is] a worthy overview of an oft-overlooked typology in the region. * RIBA Journal *Social housing is an architectural effort to engage social issues, and that places this well-edited, clearly organized, tightly written book firmly on essential reading lists for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers. * CAA Reviews *Table of Contents1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East / Kıvanç Kılınç, Mohammad GharipourPart I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing / Eliana Abu-Hamdi3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Mohamed Elshahed4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey / Bülent BatumanPart II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia / Nancy Demerdash6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948–1953 / Yael Allweil7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity / Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait / Mae Al-AnsariPart III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements / Noam Shoked10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945–1960 / Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir / Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanç Kılınç, and Ahenk YılmazIndex

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Book SynopsisFenwick analyzes poverty alleviation strategies in Brazil and Argentina to show how federalism affects the ability of a national government to sustain a conditional cash transfer program.Trade Review"This carefully crafted study offers us critical insights on how institutional design affects both governing elites and the poor. It deserves a broad audience among policy makers, academics, and activists." —Nancy Bermeo, Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Oxford"Tracy Beck Fenwick makes a compelling argument about the conditions that either facilitate or retard one of the most important social policy innovations of the contemporary period, which is the turn toward the use of conditional cash transfers to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Her core interest in how different levels of government interact in the provision of social services has become a question of great import. With respect to the recent literatures on decentralization, federalism, and subnational governments in Latin America more generally, Avoiding Governors is by far the most sophisticated attempt yet to integrate municipal governments more directly into the theoretical frameworks we use to study intergovernmental relations.” —Kent Eaton, University of California, Santa Cruz"This book puts into stark relief an argument that has only been made implicitly so far: that governors are to be avoided if federal governments in Latin America are to successfully put forth antipoverty policies. The question or pursuit is well stated: to examine why Brazil and Argentina had differing outcomes from similarly designed CCTs. The answer the author provides is that differences in federalism are key: While the setup in Brazil is such that the federal government can bypass governors, the national government in Argentina does not have the opportunity within its federal system to truly bypass the provinces and put through national policy in an equitable fashion throughout the territory. Rather, municipalities in Argentina are captured by the provincial level." —Wendy Hunter, University of Texas at Austin“Fenwick’s very useful book compares the implementation of anti-poverty programs in Brazil and Argentina. . . Fenwick also makes the interesting (and counterintuitive) argument that the extreme party fragmentation in Brazil may have actually been an advantage there.” —Choice“Fenwick’s book is a superb example of the power of political science to offer penetrating insights by coordinating the nuances of policy, history, and institutional configuration.” —Hispanic American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisWhile mandatory retirement has been eliminated in the US, a myriad of policies and practices have an impact on an older worker's decision to work or retire and an employer's decision to retain and train an older worker. Teresa Ghilarducci and John Turner address many of the issues considered on a daily basis by employees and employers.Trade Review“This conference volume is a collection of 11 articles that examine the economic and labor-relations aspects of an aging workforce in the United States. While the articles span a variety of topics, the underlying question throughout the book is: given the inevitability of demographic changes, how can we make the continued labor force participation of older works a positive experience for both employers and employees? This book considers a variety of policy options that may encourage or facilitate work at older ages. Those interested in issues surrounding employment and older workers will find the collection of interest.” —Journal of Pension Economics and Finance

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Book SynopsisThe story of how Ed and his wife Rachel developed and put into practice, in partnership with local churches, a vision to provide a home to ex-prisoners, refugees and victims of abuse.Trade ReviewI’ve admired Hope into Action for some time not least because it has a holistic depth to it. This book both highlights the needs in our country and inspires us to realise we can actually do something. My hope is, this important writing will challenge and encourage people and churches right across the country. * Rt Revd Rowan Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, former Archbishop of Canterbury *Ed Walker’s personal story is exciting and challenging in equal measure. The charity he leads, Hope into Action, is creatively pioneering a significant Christian response to the urgent housing needs of our nation. I recommend this book wholeheartedly. * Mandy Marshall: Co-Founder and Director of Restored Relationships *A powerful and inspiring story of the gospel at work in today’s world. There is so much here to encourage us all about the power of the Church and the potential for transformation in the lives of those most in need in our society. * Paul Harcourt, National Leader, New Wine England *I highly recommend this book. It links the local church with the homeless community and with some of the most broken. This book will build faith, encourage perseverance and could even be a transforming tool to encourage more people to fulfil the good works which God has called them to do. * Roy Crowne, Executive Director, Hope Together *Inspiring, encouraging, and saturated with deep wisdom. * Steve Clifford, former General Director, Evangelical Alliance *This book will challenge any reader in the very core of their being. * Elaine Storkey *Ed Walker’s attractively written story tells how Christian commitment and determination can be gloriously effective in meeting human needs. I have for many years been a great admirer of Hope into Action. Long may this excellent charity grow and flourish. * Jonathan Aitken, former cabinet minister, ex-offender and now prison chaplain *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ensign's devotion to her subjects is palpable, as are the rigor of her research and the care she has shown in telling the stories of marginalized people long dead or still alive." * Crosscut *"[Skid Road] unearths the layers of Seattle history underlying our current housing crisis. Centering long-silenced perspectives of those in the margins of society, the provocative read is informed by Ensign's own lived experience of homelessness and over three decades of her work providing primary health care to unhoused populations." * Seattle Met *

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Book SynopsisAn intimate portrait of India's child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, and considers histories of landlessness and debt servitude in narratives of child dislocation. The resulting work is an original perspective on the sociological trends in postcolonial India and a unique treatment of a population of individuals who live on the margin of society.

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Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness:first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the giant evils while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question has made a comeback.The Social Questionin the Twenty-First Century maps out the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified Social Question as a labor issue above all. The volume includes discussions from every corner of the globe, focusing on American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. The effects of capitalis

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisCreative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessness within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten citiesBogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athensto explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes. Trade Review"The book is a valuable resource for those interested in how cities have succeeded in tackling some of the causes and consequences of homelessness. . . . It offers a refreshing hands-on contribution that not only identifies the problems around homelessness but, crucially, provides specific examples and evidence from many different settings about what can be done to overcome it." * LSE Review of Books *"Its real-world examples provide digestible and valuable information to the public—especially to advocates who are beginning a vocation in the field. . . . The book demonstrates that, thanks to the passion and determination of homeless-service system actors, innovative approaches in outreach and housing-first models have emerged and been successful." * Stanford Social Innovation Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Can Cities Solve Global Homelessness? 1. The Transformation of Homeless Services 2. Engaging People on the Streets 3. Sheltering Options That Work 4. Developing an Affordable Housing Strategy 5. Supportive Housing to Target Complex Needs 6. Prevention That Works 7. Systems-Level Thinking 8. Engaging the Community 9. Understanding the Homeless System: Street Counts, By-Name Lists, Agency Databases, and Basic Research 10. Managing for Results: Performance Management and Modeling 11. Managing in Emergencies Conclusion: Lessons for Other Cities—It Can Be Done Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCreative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessness within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten citiesBogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athensto explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes. Trade Review"The book is a valuable resource for those interested in how cities have succeeded in tackling some of the causes and consequences of homelessness. . . . It offers a refreshing hands-on contribution that not only identifies the problems around homelessness but, crucially, provides specific examples and evidence from many different settings about what can be done to overcome it." * LSE Review of Books *"Its real-world examples provide digestible and valuable information to the public—especially to advocates who are beginning a vocation in the field. . . . The book demonstrates that, thanks to the passion and determination of homeless-service system actors, innovative approaches in outreach and housing-first models have emerged and been successful." * Stanford Social Innovation Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Can Cities Solve Global Homelessness? 1. The Transformation of Homeless Services 2. Engaging People on the Streets 3. Sheltering Options That Work 4. Developing an Affordable Housing Strategy 5. Supportive Housing to Target Complex Needs 6. Prevention That Works 7. Systems-Level Thinking 8. Engaging the Community 9. Understanding the Homeless System: Street Counts, By-Name Lists, Agency Databases, and Basic Research 10. Managing for Results: Performance Management and Modeling 11. Managing in Emergencies Conclusion: Lessons for Other Cities—It Can Be Done Appendix Notes References Index

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