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NUS Press The Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The
Book SynopsisExamines the ways Singapore’s impressive public housing program is central to the political legitimacy of the city-state’s single-party regime, and the growing contradictions of its success. The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the People's Action Party began to deliver on its promises. By the 1980s, 85% of the population had been rehoused in modern flats. Now, decades later, the provision of public housing shapes Singapore's environment. The standard accounts of this remarkable transformation leave many questions unanswered, from the historical to urgent matters of current policy. Why was housing such a priority in the 1960s? How did the provision of social welfare via public housing shape Singapore's industrialization and development over the last 50 years? Looking forward, can the HDB continue to be both a source of affordable housing for young families and a mechanism for retirement savings? What will happen when 99-year leases expire?Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation is a culmination of Chua Beng Huat's study of Singapore's public housing system, its dynamics, and the ways it functions in Singapore's politics. The book will be of interest to citizens and to scholars of the political economy of Asian development, social welfare provision, and Singapore.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Why Singapore Prioritizes Public Housing?Chapter Two: Current State of Housing Provision Across Different SystemsChapter Three: The National Public Housing ProgramChapter Four: From Necessary Accommodation to Market CommodityChapter Five: Public Housing as Retirement AssetChapter Six: Residual Housing for Residual PeopleChapter Seven: Politics and Public Housing Ownership: From Clients to Entitled Citizens of the StateBibliographyIndex
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Yale University Press NineTenths of the Law Enduring Dispossession in
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossessionTrade Review“Nine Tenths of the Law . . . makes an important contribution to global literature on land grabbing and conflict, and addresses profound questions about what law is and where rights come from . . . this book is a major achievement.”—Edward Aspinall, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia “Christian Lund provides a brilliant account of how law, force and authority are mobilized to create and obliterate property rights in land. Written with exceptional clarity and passion.”—Tania Murray Li, author of Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenou Frontier“Why do people pursue legalizing claims if the law does not live up to its promise to offer enduring predictability? Lund offers profound insights in this fundamental paradox of law.”—Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, co-author of Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity“Nine-Tenths of the Law is a deeply original analysis of land property relations. It is one of the best books I’ve read on the pressing contemporary social issues of property, citizenship, dispossession, law, and social movements. A tour de force!”—Jun Borras, International Institute of Social Studies "Lund maps out the conceptual and empirical frontier of a new legal anthropology. Nine-Tenths of the Law puts property in its place among other social and political elements of possession. Beautifully written and continuously enlightening!"—Jesse Ribot, American University“Nine-Tenths of the Law is a very important contribution to an emerging debate on citizenship in the postcolonial world, deftly connecting literatures on postcolonial law, citizenship, and anthropologies of the state."—Gerry van Klinken, author of Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Right to housing in law and society
Book SynopsisFrom the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights. The right to adequate housing, even though protecting one of the most basic needs of human beings, has not escaped this classification. Despite its strong foundations in international, regional and domestic legislation, many people are still deprived of one or more of the different key elements that comprise adequate housing. How, then, can international human rights theory and case law be developed into effective vehicles at the domestic level? Rather than focusing merely on possibilities for individualized relief through the court system, The Right to Housing in Law and Society looks into more effective socio-economic rights realization by addressing both conceptual and practical stumbling blocks that hinder a more structural progress at the national level. The Flemish and Belgian housing legislation and policy are used to highlight the problems and illustrate the pathways here presented. While first and foremost legal in its approach, the book also offers a more sociological perspective on the functioning of the right to housing in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers and students in the fields of international socio-economic rights law and human rights law more generally. Table of ContentsIntroduction1. International Acknowledgment of the Importance of Housing 2. Approach and Aims of the Book 3. The Belgian and Flemish Right to Housing as Illustration PART I An Effective Right to Housing: Beyond Legal-Technical Issues 1 Human Dignity: A Guiding Principle for a Stronger Right to Housing? 1. Exploring the Content of Human Dignity and Its Use in a Human Rights Context A. History of the Concept B. Human Dignity in a Human Rights Context 1) First Function: A Foundation for Human Rights 2) Second Function: A Value/Right to Protect and Guarantee C. The Added Value and Pitfalls of Using Human Dignity 1) As an Equivalent of Decent or Adequate Housing 2) As an Open-Ended Norm for Courts and Other Institutions a. A Driving Force for Other Rights b. The Other Side of the Coin: A Race to the Bottom? c. Subjective vs. Objective Dignity 4. Impact on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Right to Housing A. Obligations of Result or Conduct? According to Private or International Law? B. A Recipe for Confusion 5. Towards Result-Oriented Obligations? A. The Right to Housing as an Obligation of Result B. A Result-Oriented Approach 6. Conclusion 5 Progressive Realization and Retrogressive Measures 1. Introduction 2. The Concept of Progressive Realization under Scrutiny: From a Housing Rights Perspective A. Progressiveness as a Flexibility Device B. Flexibility Does Not Equal Freedom of Obligations 1) Drittwirkung 2) Immediate Obligations 3) Minimum Core C. Focus on Progressiveness 3. Retrogressive Measures and Financial Constraints A. Origins in International Human Rights Law B. Justification of Retrogressive Measures in International Human Rights Law 1) Presumption of Impermissibility 2) More Leeway for Budgetary Concerns? 3) Connection between Article 2(1) and 4 ICESCR 4) Budgetary Concerns: The Position of the European Committee of Social Rights C. The Application in Belgian Case Law 1) A Broader Margin of Appreciation: No Presumption of Non-Retrogression 2) Practical Problems: Establishing Retrogression 3) A Different Application of the Principle: The Proportionality Test D. Appropriateness of Retrogressive Measures 4. Conclusion 6 Towards Result-Oriented Obligations 1. International Monitoring Techniques 2. Enforceability of Progressive Realization A. A Review Criterion B. Reasonableness 1) Different Scopes of Reasonableness 2) Reasonableness as Appropriateness a. A Preliminary Proposal b. Possible Criticism and Imperfections 3. Combining Monitoring and Reasonableness A. Overview of the Proposal B. Requirements and Areas of Concern 1) The Monitoring Body 2) Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Analysis: Practical Difficulties 3) Enforceability of Progress 5. Conclusion Conclusions Index
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Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S. Land Transfer and Finance Cases and Materials
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University of British Columbia Press Lament for a First Nation
Book SynopsisIn a 1994 decision known as Howard, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the Aboriginal signatories to the 1923 Williams Treaties had knowingly given up not only their title to off-reserve lands but also their treaty rights to hunt and fish for food. No other First Nations in Canada have ever been found to have willingly surrendered similar rights. Blair argues that the Canadian courts caused a serious injustice by applying erroneous cultural assumptions in their interpretation of the evidence. In particular, they confused provincial government policy, which has historically favoured public over special rights, with the understanding of the parties at the time.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Historical Background1 History of the Williams Treaties First Nations2 Imperial Crown Policy3 A New Crown Policy4 Jurisdictional Disputes5 Bureaucratic ObstaclesPart 2: The Williams Treaties6 The Push for a New Treaty7 Differing Perceptions8 The Howard Case9 AnalysisConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography
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University of British Columbia Press To Share Not Surrender
Book SynopsisTo Share, Not Surrender presents multiple views and lived experience of the treaty-making process and its repercussions in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and publishes, for the first time, the Vancouver Island Treaties in First Nations languages.Trade ReviewThe past is with us and history matters. Read To Share Not Surrender as a great example of how there can be different interpretations of the past. -- Robin Fisher * The British Columbia Review *"To Share, Not Surrender is a book that could help every British Columbian to better understand the historical, political, and relational fabric of this province – and the obligations that flow from this." -- Alan Hanna, University of Victoria * BC Studies *Until now, academic discussion of the Vancouver Island treaties has tended to be sparse, vague, and insufficiently attentive to Indigenous perspectives. In consequence, public knowledge of the Treaties, and especially the white settlers' collective failure to honour them, leaves much to be desired. To Share Not Surrender aims to overcome these shortcomings. In my opinion, it succeeds admirably. -- Martin George Holmes, University of Otago * Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments | HaichkaForeword / Chief Ron SamPrefaceIntroduction / Graham Brazier, Peter Cook, Hamar Foster, John Lutz, and Neil VallancePart 1: First Nation and Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Land Rights1 Note on the Early Life and Career of James Douglas / Graham Brazier2 Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas / Adele Perry3 More or Less Human: Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849–1864 / Laura Spitz4 The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties: What Was It? / Hamar FosterPart 2: Treaty Texts5 The Earliest First Nation Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850–1854 / Neil Vallance6 First Nation Language Texts of the Vancouver Island TreatiesIntroduction / Neil VallanceSENĆOŦEN Language Treaty Text / STOLCEL John Elliott Sr.Lekwungen Language Treaty Text / Elmer George7 Huu-ay-aht t’ayii hawil (Head Chief) liishin’s Land Transaction with Government Agent William Banfield in 1859 / Kevin NearyPart 3: The Beginning and End of Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island8 Land, First Nations and James Douglas and the Background to Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island / Graham Brazier9 The Rutter’s Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island / John Sutton LutzPart 4: After the Treaties10 “For Ever Removing the Fertile Cause of Agrarian Disturbance”: Governor James Douglas’ British Columbia Unsurveyed Land System / Sarah Pike11 “The Last Potlatch”: James Douglas’ Vision of an Alternative Form of Settler Colonialism / Keith Thor CarlsonAfterword / Robert Clifford, Maxine Matilpi, and Stephen HumeAppendix: Timeline / Hamar Foster and Neil VallanceIndex
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University of British Columbia Press To Share Not Surrender
Book SynopsisTo Share, Not Surrender presents multiple views and lived experience of the treaty-making process and its repercussions in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and publishes, for the first time, the Vancouver Island Treaties in First Nations languages.Trade ReviewThe past is with us and history matters. Read To Share Not Surrender as a great example of how there can be different interpretations of the past. -- Robin Fisher * The British Columbia Review *"To Share, Not Surrender is a book that could help every British Columbian to better understand the historical, political, and relational fabric of this province – and the obligations that flow from this." -- Alan Hanna, University of Victoria * BC Studies *Until now, academic discussion of the Vancouver Island treaties has tended to be sparse, vague, and insufficiently attentive to Indigenous perspectives. In consequence, public knowledge of the Treaties, and especially the white settlers' collective failure to honour them, leaves much to be desired. To Share Not Surrender aims to overcome these shortcomings. In my opinion, it succeeds admirably. -- Martin George Holmes, University of Otago * Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments | HaichkaForeword / Chief Ron SamPrefaceIntroduction / Graham Brazier, Peter Cook, Hamar Foster, John Lutz, and Neil VallancePart 1: First Nation and Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Land Rights1 Note on the Early Life and Career of James Douglas / Graham Brazier2 Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas / Adele Perry3 More or Less Human: Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849–1864 / Laura Spitz4 The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties: What Was It? / Hamar FosterPart 2: Treaty Texts5 The Earliest First Nation Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850–1854 / Neil Vallance6 First Nation Language Texts of the Vancouver Island TreatiesIntroduction / Neil VallanceSENĆOŦEN Language Treaty Text / STOLCEL John Elliott Sr.Lekwungen Language Treaty Text / Elmer George7 Huu-ay-aht t’ayii hawil (Head Chief) liishin’s Land Transaction with Government Agent William Banfield in 1859 / Kevin NearyPart 3: The Beginning and End of Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island8 Land, First Nations and James Douglas and the Background to Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island / Graham Brazier9 The Rutter’s Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island / John Sutton LutzPart 4: After the Treaties10 “For Ever Removing the Fertile Cause of Agrarian Disturbance”: Governor James Douglas’ British Columbia Unsurveyed Land System / Sarah Pike11 “The Last Potlatch”: James Douglas’ Vision of an Alternative Form of Settler Colonialism / Keith Thor CarlsonAfterword / Robert Clifford, Maxine Matilpi, and Stephen HumeAppendix: Timeline / Hamar Foster and Neil VallanceIndex
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Duke University Press Suffering for Territory
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of Zimbabwe's land occupations that focuses on the effects of spatialized struggles on sovereignty and the nation-stateTrade Review“Donald S. Moore’s Suffering for Territory is a paradigm-shattering work in agrarian studies. Combining an impressive ethnographic study of land struggle in contemporary Zimbabwe with critical theories of sovereignty, hegemony, and race, Moore decisively and masterfully rereads the history of Zimbabwe and southern Africa through the prism of settler colonialism, colonial capitalism, and their legacies.”—Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism“This widely suggestive book—a model of hospitable thought—combines erudition, theoretical insights, and literary inventiveness with well-crafted ethnography. In the process, it rewrites not only the histories of land, but also the histories of life, race, and sovereignty in Zimbabwe.”—Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony“Suffering for Territory is an outstanding work of scholarship, which combines innovative theory with vivid ethnographic detail to produce an unusually illuminating view of land, livelihoods, and politics in contemporary rural Zimbabwe. With enormous erudition and keen observational insight, Donald S. Moore shows convincingly how both territories and the subjects who inhabit them can be understood as the contingent products of dynamic social and historical processes. The book’s combination of sophisticated theoretical analysis and deep ethnographic understanding makes it one of the most important contributions to the anthropology of Africa to appear in recent years.”—James Ferguson, author of Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt“[This] study has so much to offer in terms of historical insights as well as grounded methodology, serving as a model of the type of scholarship required to understand the complex relationships between local practices of power, and the broader forces of colonial and postcolonial rule.” -- Pius S. Nyambara * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Using well researched and brilliantly presented ethnographies and social histories of the Tangwena People's Kaerezi Ranch (one of the most symbolic arenas in the struggle for independence and racial equality), Moore sifts through the 'sediments' of history and present day dynamics to tell a story of how the contemporary spatial and agrarian structure emerged and is articulated in the lived experiences of villagers in Nyamutsapa (the location of most of his field work).” -- Admos Osmund Chimhowu * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations xix Introduction: Situated Struggles 1 Part I. Governing Space 1. Lines of Dissent 35 2. Disciplining Development 68 3. Landscapes of Livelihood 96 Part II. Colonial Cartographies 4. Racialized Dispossession 129 5. The Ethnic Spatial Fix 153 6. Enduring Evictions 184 Part III. Entangled Landscapes 7. Selective Sovereignties 219 8. Spatial Subjection 250 9. The Traction of Rights and Rule 281 Epilogue: Effective Articulations 310 Notes 323 References 365 Index 387
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Aspen Publishers Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer A
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University of Nebraska Press Matters of Justice
Book SynopsisAfter the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime, pueblo representatives sent hundreds of petitions to Pres.Francisco I. Madero, demanding that the executive branch of government assume the judiciary’s control over their unresolved lawsuits against landowners, local bosses, and other villages. The Madero administration tried to use existing laws to settle land conflicts but always stopped short of invading judicial authority. In contrast, the two main agrarian reform programs undertaken in revolutionary Mexico—those implemented by Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza—subordinated the judiciary to the executive branch and thereby reshaped the postrevolutionary state with the support of villagers, who actively sided with one branch of government over another. In Matters of Justice Helga Baitenmann offers the first detailed account of the Zapatista and Carrancista agrarian reform programs as they were implemented in practiceTrade Review"Matters of Justice should be studied as a general course-correction in our understanding of how pueblos, land, and governance intersected during a formative period in Mexico's history."—Morgan Veraluz, New Mexico Historical Review"Because of the care with which she reconstructs the implementation of the early agrarian reform, Baitenmann's book will be required reading for those teaching or writing about the history of the Mexican Revolution for many years to come."—Timothy M. James, H-LatAm"Baitenmann excels at grounding her argument in exhaustive archival research within the context of the broader literature."—M. Becker, Choice“Richly researched and carefully argued, Matters of Justice sheds new light on the agrarian reforms born of the Mexican Revolution, showing how changing political circumstances and unforeseen practical difficulties turned widespread calls for village land restitution into a makeshift system of executive land grants that bypassed judicial sanction and gave birth to a new institution, the Mexican ejido. A must-read for every historian of modern Mexico.”—Emilio Kourí, author of A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico“A landmark history of the Mexican agrarian reform’s juridical underpinnings and the logistical considerations that shaped its execution. Matters of Justice punctures historiographical shibboleths and paints a new portrait of what lawmakers believed the land reform was and how it should be executed. It provides crisp insight into how communities learned to navigate the land reform’s sometimes labyrinthine legal structures.”—Christopher Boyer, author of Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico“A much-needed corrective to the first decade of agrarian reform in Revolutionary Mexico. . . . Because the foci shift seamlessly between the federal district and the countryside, the result is a multivocal and balanced assessment of agrarian reform that, despite its shortcomings, contradictions, and inconsistencies, set the course of Mexican rural policy for the next eighty years.”—John J. Dwyer, author of The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary MexicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Hidden Histories of Revolutionary Agrarian Reform 1. The Inherent Difficulties of Winning Pueblo Land and Water Suits in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 2. Pueblo Land and Water Claims during the Madero Administration, 1911–1913 3. The Zapatista Land Reform, 1911–1916 4. The Constitutionalist Land Reform in the Absence of the Judiciary, 1914–1917 5. The Return of the Judiciary in Uncertain Times, 1917–1924 6. The Morelos Laboratory, 1920–1924 Epilogue: Zapatista and Constitutionalist Agrarian Reforms Compared Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Matters of Justice
Book SynopsisAfter the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime, pueblo representatives sent hundreds of petitions to Pres.Francisco I. Madero, demanding that the executive branch of government assume the judiciary’s control over their unresolved lawsuits against landowners, local bosses, and other villages. The Madero administration tried to use existing laws to settle land conflicts but always stopped short of invading judicial authority. In contrast, the two main agrarian reform programs undertaken in revolutionary Mexico—those implemented by Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza—subordinated the judiciary to the executive branch and thereby reshaped the postrevolutionary state with the support of villagers, who actively sided with one branch of government over another. In Matters of Justice Helga Baitenmann offers the first detailed account of the Zapatista and Carrancista agrarian reform programs as they were implemented in practiceTrade Review"Matters of Justice should be studied as a general course-correction in our understanding of how pueblos, land, and governance intersected during a formative period in Mexico's history."—Morgan Veraluz, New Mexico Historical Review"Because of the care with which she reconstructs the implementation of the early agrarian reform, Baitenmann's book will be required reading for those teaching or writing about the history of the Mexican Revolution for many years to come."—Timothy M. James, H-LatAm"Baitenmann excels at grounding her argument in exhaustive archival research within the context of the broader literature."—M. Becker, Choice“Richly researched and carefully argued, Matters of Justice sheds new light on the agrarian reforms born of the Mexican Revolution, showing how changing political circumstances and unforeseen practical difficulties turned widespread calls for village land restitution into a makeshift system of executive land grants that bypassed judicial sanction and gave birth to a new institution, the Mexican ejido. A must-read for every historian of modern Mexico.”—Emilio Kourí, author of A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico“A landmark history of the Mexican agrarian reform’s juridical underpinnings and the logistical considerations that shaped its execution. Matters of Justice punctures historiographical shibboleths and paints a new portrait of what lawmakers believed the land reform was and how it should be executed. It provides crisp insight into how communities learned to navigate the land reform’s sometimes labyrinthine legal structures.”—Christopher Boyer, author of Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico“A much-needed corrective to the first decade of agrarian reform in Revolutionary Mexico. . . . Because the foci shift seamlessly between the federal district and the countryside, the result is a multivocal and balanced assessment of agrarian reform that, despite its shortcomings, contradictions, and inconsistencies, set the course of Mexican rural policy for the next eighty years.”—John J. Dwyer, author of The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary MexicoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Hidden Histories of Revolutionary Agrarian Reform 1. The Inherent Difficulties of Winning Pueblo Land and Water Suits in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 2. Pueblo Land and Water Claims during the Madero Administration, 1911–1913 3. The Zapatista Land Reform, 1911–1916 4. The Constitutionalist Land Reform in the Absence of the Judiciary, 1914–1917 5. The Return of the Judiciary in Uncertain Times, 1917–1924 6. The Morelos Laboratory, 1920–1924 Epilogue: Zapatista and Constitutionalist Agrarian Reforms Compared Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Using Assisted Negotiation to Settle Land Use Di
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy The Tiebout Model at Fifty – Essays in Public
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Visioning and Visualization – People, Pixels, and
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy State Trust Lands in the West – Fiduciary Duty in
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Reinventing Development Regulations
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Temple University Press,U.S. Rebuilding Low Income Housing
Book SynopsisA new strategy proposed for producing affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizationsTrade Review"A useful resource for planners an activist working on housing development. It provides a wealth of information about the positive and negative outcomes of various federal and local initiatives."—International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"[L]ittle work has been done to show that a community-based housing program is a viable alternative. Rachel Bratt's new book...fills this void nicely by giving a detailed account of the recent emergence of community-based housing programs....Bratt is perhaps the country's leading expert in this area....While the main emphasis of the book is on community-based housing programs, an additional plus is a critical review of the history of United States housing programs which I found illuminating and insightful."—Journal of Urban AffairsTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Housing Problems and Current Responses 2. Housing Programs and Housing Evaluations Part II: Traditional Federally Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs 3. The Public Housing Program 4. Publicly Subsidized Private Housing 5. CASE STUDY: Private versus Public Goals: Conflicting Interests in Resyndication 6. HUD and Low-Income Housing Programs 7. CASE STUDY: HUD's Property Disposition Policies and the Granite Properties Emily J. Morris, co-author Part III: The Past, Present, and Future of Community-Based Housing 8. An Overview and Assessment of the Community-Based Housing Strategy 9. CASE STUDY: Community-Based Housing Development at the Local Level: The Challenges Facing South Holyoke, Massachusetts Thomas M. Harden, co-author 10. Dilemmas of Community-Based Housing Development CASE STUDIES: Two Community Development Corporations Eric Bove, Phillip Brown, Peter Hollands, Sarah Snow, and John Thoma, case studies co-authors 11. Public Support for Community-Based Housing in Massachusetts 12. CASE STUDY: Institutionalizing Community-Based Housing Development: The Boston Housing Partnership Wendy Plotkin, co-author 13. Rebuilding a Low-Income Housing Policy Notes References Index
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American Bar Association The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing
Book SynopsisThe Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition covers the most important areas of applicable law and provides a comprehensive overview of affordable housing laws. This continues to be a time of challenges for affordable housing, with the now-familiar mortgage and foreclosure crises resulting in a period of deep uncertainty and long-term adjustment. This timely third edition provides not only a past and future perspective from seasoned professionals, but also includes critical updates to all of the chapters from the second edition. New chapters have been added to address the greening of affordable housing, the unprecedented number of severely cost-burdened households and innovative state and local policy responses, and the mortgage crisis of 2008 and the rental crisis caused by COVID-19. The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development is a clearly written, practical resource for attorneys representing local governments (municipalities, counties, housing authorities, and redevelopment agencies), housing developers (both for-profit and nonprofit), investors, financial institutions, and populations eligible for housing. With substantial cross-referencing between chapters and an extensive index for quick access to on-point information, the guide is organized into three separate parts.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Housing as Commons: Housing Alternatives as
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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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe: Towards
Book SynopsisTenancy law has developed in all EU member states for decades, or even centuries, but constitutes a widely blank space in comparative and European law. This book fills an important gap in the literature by considering the diverse and complex panorama of housing policies, markets and their legal regulation across Europe. Expert contributors argue that while unification is neither politically desired nor opportune, a European recommendation of best practices including draft rules and default contracts implementing a regulatory equilibrium would be a rewarding step forward.Despite the lack of EU legislation, policies and legislation in areas ranging from anti-poverty, energy, and tax to consumer law and human rights have generated important, though largely unnoticed, collateral effects on the field. This book opens by presenting a representative picture of the social, economic and legal embeddedness of this sector in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Contributions then deal more narrowly with the legal regulation of different jurisdictions? tenancy contracts.Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe makes a significant contribution to our understanding of issues in tenancy and housing that will be welcomed by academics and advanced students in law across Europe.Contributors include: S.N. Aznar, E. Bargelli, R. Bianchi, M. Drofenik, M.O. Garcia, M. Habdas, M.E.A. Haffner, J. Hegedüs, V. Horvath, A. Hussar, M. Jordan, J. Juul-Sandberg, A. Klopp, I. Kull, S. Meznar, H.S. Moreno, P. Norberg, G. Panek, E.M. Roig, C.U. Schmid, K. XerriTrade Review'Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe makes a significant contribution to the understanding of issues in tenancy and housing that can be beneficial to the academics and students of law, public services and public administration across Europe. Practitioners might find useful hints and recommendations on housing regulations, as well.'--NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Christoph U. Schmid 1. The role of private renting in France and the Netherlands compared Marietta E.A. Haffner 2. Central and East European housing regimes in the light of private rental sector development József Hegedüs and Vera Horváth 3. Tenancies as an alternative to homeownership in Spain, Portugal and Malta? The legal drivers in a European context Sergio Nasarre Aznar, Maria Olinda Garcia, Héctor Simón Moreno, Kurt Xerri and Elga Molina Roig 4. Black market and residential tenancy contracts in southern Europe: new trends in private law measures Elena Bargelli and Ranieri Bianchi 5. The (in)effectiveness of tenancy regulation in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia – is law part of the problem or the solution? Špelca Mežnar and Maša Drofenik 6. Elements of stability of tenancy relations in Baltic states Irene Kull and Ave Hussar 7. Balancing the rights of tenants and landlords in the context of rent regulation – Polish experiences in the light of ECtHR case-law Magdalena Habdas and Grzegorz Panek 8. The British assured shorthold tenancy in a European context: extremity of tenancy law on the fringes of Europe Mark Jordan 9. Rent control and other aspects of tenancy law in Sweden, Denmark and Finland – how can a balance be struck between protection of tenants’ rights and landlords’ ownership rights in welfare states? Per Norberg and Jakob Juul-Sandberg 10. The role of tenancy law in the tenant countries Switzerland, Austria and Germany – Macroeconomic benefits through a balanced legal infrastructure? Annika Klopp and Christoph U. Schmid Epilogue: towards a European role in tenancy law and housing policy Christoph U. Schmid Index
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James Currey Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania
Book SynopsisReveals the impact of Tanzania's land law reforms and the ways in which women's rights to land ownership have been overridden in spite of law. Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a "land rush" and land-grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the ground and, in particular, how have women experienced this? This book seeksto re-orientate current debates on women's land rights towards a focus on the law in action. Drawing on the author's ethnographic research in the Arusha region of Tanzania, it explores how the country's land law reforms have impacted on women's legal claims to land. Centring on cases involving women litigants, the book considers the extent to which women are realising their interests in land through land courts and follows the progression of women's claims to land - from their social origins through processes of dispute resolution to judgment. Dancer's work explores three central issues. First, it considers the nature of women's claims to land in Tanzanian family contexts,the value of land in an era of land reform and the 'land rush' across Africa, and the extent to which the social issues raised are addressed by Tanzania's current laws and legal system. Secondly, it examines how agency and power relations between social and legal actors engaged in legal processes affect women's access to justice and the progression of claims. Thirdly, it explores Tanzanian concepts of justice and rights and how women's claims have been judged by land courts in practice. Helen Dancer is a lecturer in Law at the University of Brighton. She practised as a barrister in England specialising in family legal aid cases prior to training as a legal anthropologist. She is also a consultant for Future Agricultures at IDS, University of Sussex. Her areas of research interest include law and development, gender and land, and human rights and legal pluralism.Trade Review[T]he book addresses the existing legal provisions, deficiencies and achievements of gender equity in land allocation. . . . The book is highly valuable to scholars in conflict studies, law, international studies, diplomacy, development studies and anthropology. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Having seen the author of this book present her work, I had high expectations, and they were not disappointed. This is a well-grounded and carefully thought through study. * TANZANIAN AFFAIRS *This is an excellent book that details the micro-level exclusions and difficulties women face in asserting land rights as well as the challenges states face in attempting to accommodate customary land law within egalitarian legal systems. It will be especially interesting to those interested in women's property rights and access to justice under customary law. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Social origins of women's claims to land: Gender, family and land tenure in Arusha Women's claims to land in Tanzania's statutory framework Making legal claims to land: Agency, power relations and access to justice Doing justice in women's claims: Haki and equal rights "Shamba ni langu" (The shamba is mine): A case study of gender, power and law in action Conclusion
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Law Brief Publishing A Practical Guide to Security of Tenure in the
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Kohlhammer Landesbauordnung Schleswig-Holstein: Textausgabe
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V&R unipress GmbH Die Aufgabe des Eigentums an Grundstücken gemäß §
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V&R unipress GmbH The Distinction of Land and Goods in English,
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