People Poverty And Shelter
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People Poverty And Shelter
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Author : Reinhard J. Skinner
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1983
People Poverty And Shelter written by Reinhard J. Skinner and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Autoconstruction - Pays en voie de développement categories.
Surviving In A Material World
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Author : Ronald Paul Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Surviving In A Material World written by Ronald Paul Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Political Science categories.
Over the course of the last decade, Ronald Hill has dedicated his research efforts to answering the question: How do the poor survive in America's material world? Hill identifies six subgroups among the poor, including the "hidden homeless," homeless families living in shelters, poor children, and the rural poor. Approximately 13 percent of Americans (35 million people) live in poverty. That rate soars for children: it is estimated that nearly one in five young people lives in a home without adequate income, shelter, food, and health care. Bearing in mind the specific needs of each community, Hill proposes solutions that attack the roots of poverty by utilizing impoverished groups' strengths and understanding their weaknesses.
Paths To Homelessness
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Author : Kathryn D Talley
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1994-08-24
Paths To Homelessness written by Kathryn D Talley and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08-24 with Social Science categories.
This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies conducted in three diverse cities—Chicago, Denver, and Tampa—shows that there is no “culture of poverty” that makes people poor, just as there is no “culture of homelessness” that leaves people without shelter. Instead, the authors show that large numbers of people became homeless through the processes of urban and industrial decline.Homelessness is largely an urban phenomenon. It increased dramatically when cities witnessed the simultaneous loss of low-income housing and good-paying industrial jobs. However, the increase in the number of homeless people does not suggest a special social problem—arising from the character of individuals—but is the result of social and economic transformations in American cities since the late 1970s.In this book the words of the homeless tell the stories of people who were “making it” before but eventually fell into circumstances of extreme poverty. The many paths taken to homelessness, revealed in their stories, speak to the changing conditions of inequality in the United States today and the need for new public policies.
Making Room
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Author : Brendan O'Flaherty
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1996
Making Room written by Brendan O'Flaherty and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless--and we still don't know why. The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far by sociologists and pundits. It is a story about markets, not about the bad habits or pathology of individuals. One perplexing fact is that, though homelessness in the past occurred during economic depressions, the current wave started in the 1980s, a time of relative prosperity. As Brendan O'Flaherty points out, this trend has been accompanied by others just as unexpected: rising rents for poor people and continued housing abandonment. These are among the many disconcerting facts that O'Flaherty collected and analyzed in order to account for the new homelessness. Focused on six cities (New York, Newark, Chicago, Toronto, London, and Hamburg), his studies also document the differing rates of homelessness in North America and Europe, and from one city to the next, as well as interesting changes in the composition of homeless populations. For the first time, too, a scholarly observer makes a useful distinction between the homeless people we encounter on the streets every day and those "officially" counted as homeless. O'Flaherty shows that the conflicting observations begin to make sense when we see the new homelessness as a response to changes in the housing market, linked to a widening gap in the incomes of rich and poor. The resulting shrinkage in the size of the middle class has meant fewer hand-me-downs for the poor and higher rents for the low-quality housing that is available. O'Flaherty's tightly argued theory, along with the wealth of new data he introduces, will put the study of homelessness on an entirely new plane. No future student or policymaker will be able to ignore the economic f
Inequality Poverty And Neoliberal Governance
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Author : Vincent Lyon-Callo
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Inequality Poverty And Neoliberal Governance written by Vincent Lyon-Callo and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Social Science categories.
"This is a terrific book. Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them." - Susan Greenbaum, University of South Florida
Fight To Win
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Author : A.J. Withers
language : en
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
Fight To Win written by A.J. Withers and has been published by Fernwood Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z with Social Science categories.
AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information requests to provide a detailed account of the work of OCAP. This book shows that poor people’s organizing can be effective even in periods of neoliberal retrenchment. Fight to Win tells the stories of four key OCAP homelessness campaigns: stopping the criminalization of homeless people in a public park; the fight for poor people’s access to the Housing Shelter Fund; a campaign to improve the emergency shelter system and the City’s overarching, but inadequate, Housing First policy; and the attempt by the City of Toronto to drive homeless people from encampments during the COVID pandemic. This book shows how power works at the municipal level, including the use of a multitude of demobilization tactics, devaluing poor people as sources of knowledge about their own lives, and gaslighting poor people and anti-poverty activists. AJ Withers also details OCAP’s dual activist strategy — direct-action casework coupled with mass mobilization — for both immediate need and long-term change. These campaigns demonstrate the validity of OCAP’s longstanding critiques of dominant homelessness policies and practices. Each campaign was fully or partially successful: these victories were secured by anti-poverty activists through the use of, and the threat of, direct disruptive action tactics.
The Hidden Millions
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Author : Graham Tipple
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-02-26
The Hidden Millions written by Graham Tipple and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-26 with Architecture categories.
Exploring the human context as well as policy and planning, this book looks at what actually happens to city dwellers once they become homeless, and presents challenging cases which illustrate the varying experiences of the homeless in cities around the world.
America S Shame
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Author : Barbara A. Arrighi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1997-07-30
America S Shame written by Barbara A. Arrighi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07-30 with Family & Relationships categories.
Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom either the boots or the straps are missing. This book further offers solutions in consciousness raising, community collaboration, and informed, responsible public policy. The book is a critique of a system that purports to serve yet sometimes impedes the welfare of those who are in need of the basic elements for survival, including affordable shelter. It analyzes the structural factors of poverty and the social psychological costs of being poor and lacking a home. Utilizing interview findings from families who have lived in a shelter in northern Kentucky and from staff members, the book examines the degrading effects of shelter life on women's self-respect and children's development. Rather than an examination of individual pathologies leading to lack of shelter, it centers on women and children living in shelters and offers a sociological study of poverty and the family.
Poor Housing
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Author : Josh Brandon
language : en
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Release Date : 2017-01-18T00:00:00Z
Poor Housing written by Josh Brandon and has been published by Fernwood Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-18T00:00:00Z with Social Science categories.
Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they already endure, which includes worsening health, adversely affected education and neighbourhoods that are more prone to crime and violence. Using Winnipeg, Manitoba, as an example, Poor Housing examines the real-life circumstances of low-income people who are forced to live in these conditions. Contributing authors examine some of the challenges faced by low-income people in poor housing, including difficulties with landlords who abuse their power, bedbugs, racism and discrimination and a wide range of other social and psychological effects. Other selections consider the particular housing problems faced by Aboriginal people and by newcomers to Winnipeg as well as the challenges faced by individuals living in rooming houses. A central theme in the collection is that the private, for-profit housing market cannot meet the housing needs of low-income Canadians, and, therefore, governments must intervene and provide subsidies. But all levels of government have shown a consistent unwillingness to invest in decent housing for low-income people. The irony is that the social costs of poor housing and the complex poverty of which it is a part are almost certainly greater than the costs of investing in subsidized social housing and related anti-poverty measures. Finally, the authors describe a number of creative and successful housing strategies for low-income people in Winnipeg, including Aboriginal housing co-ops, a revitalized 1960s-style public housing complex and a highly creative repurposing of an inner-city church into supported social housing. In these successful cases, communities and governments have worked cooperatively to good effect.
Contrasts In Religion Community And Structure At Three Homeless Shelters
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Author : Ines W. Jindra
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-17
Contrasts In Religion Community And Structure At Three Homeless Shelters written by Ines W. Jindra and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-17 with Religion categories.
How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet? Homeless shelters across the world play a huge role in this process. Many of them are religious, but there is a lot of diversity in faith-based non-profits that assist people affected by poverty and homelessness. In this timely book, the authors look at three homeless shelters that take more or less intensive approaches to faith, community, and programming. In one shelter, for instance, residents are required to do a program of classes that includes group Bible study, worship, and self-evaluation. The other two examined are significantly less faith-based, but in different ways and with different structures. The authors show how the three shelters tackle homelessness differently, drawing on narrative biographical interviews and case studies with residents, interviews with staff, and case study research of the three shelters. Entering into significant debates in social theory over religion, agency, cognitive action, and culture, this book is important reading for scholars and students in religious studies, sociology and social work.