Social Issues & Processes

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era - the UK's housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on...

This book is about Bristol's changing face. Written by an author who grew up in the heart of Bristol's ghetto, Palmer sheds light on the supposed '...

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesCity of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced sep...

The high cost of building affordable housing in New York, and cities like it, has long been a topic of urgent debate. Yet despite its paramount imp...

There is a long-established, recognised relationship between poor housing and poor health. This report presents the findings from a joint BRE Trust...

Altruism by Design: How to Effect Social Change as an Architect is meant to prepare the individual designer whether a student or practicing profes...

After the trauma of the war, those returning home required jobs, and with them clean and modern homes for their families. The slums and tenements o...

A Financial Times Business BOOK OF THE YEARAN INSIDE LOOK AT THE HORIZON POST OFFICE SCANDAL'Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more...

There is a regular call for UK housing statistics to compare them with international countries. However, statistics in the UK are compiled from the...

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began ...

Jessica Pardee documents and examines the experiences of low-income African American women during Hurricane Katrina to uncover the ways that race, ...

This report summarises the methodology and results of a research project commissioned by BRE Trust to quantify how much the improvements to social ...

Criminals, drifters, beggars, the homeless, immigrants, prostitutes, tramping artisans, street entertainers, abandoned children, navvies, and famil...

A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, vo...

Since 2006, the percentage of mortgage loans that are seriously delinquent, including defaulted loans and foreclosures in inventory, has risen. One...

For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed whether hoste...

At Home with Autism: Designing Housing for the Spectrum introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that dema...