Housing & Homelessness

____________________________________Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father who was in and out of prison, and ...

Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new ageA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far awayway back in the twenty-...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning ...

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century - why should the wealthiest country in the world als...

One hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead t...

Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a big...

Homelessness once was considered an aberration. Today it is a normalized feature of US society. It is also, argued in The Homelessness Industry: th...

Effective and efficient housing management is important to support the implementation of key UN agreements, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainab...

For many decades and for many reasons, people who are homeless have chosen to live in camps or other makeshift settings, even when shelters are ava...

Housing matters for everyone, as it provides shelter, security, privacy, and stability. For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), housing t...

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanitie...

The Country Profile of Kazakhstan, prepared at the request of the Government of Kazakhstan focuses on the housing sector, specifically on issues of...

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanitiesIn recent years, the digital humanitie...

The Philosophy of Homelessness is borne out of a five-year ethnographic research project involving being with a group of chronically homeless peopl...

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework fo...

Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of right...

In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plight...

This book covers the history of supported housing provision in the context of the broader political and theoretical considerations of the time in w...

Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed homeless capitals for having the largest homeless populations of their respective co...

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers and school administrators need to recognize and combat bias and inequity that und...