Social Issues & Processes

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

Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acut...

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wi...

A colorful history of lives rescued on New York Citys infamous boulevard of broken dreams. The Bowery has long been one of New York Citys most not...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The number of people experiencing homelessness is rising in the majority of advanced western economie...

People leaving prison; refugees; victims of abuse and prostitution. All struggle to find a home, to build relationships, to get back on their feet....

The other side of Notting Hill - this is a historical analysis of housing in the North Kensington area of London, from the middle of the Twentieth ...

When the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city's notorious slums after the First W...

Peter Marcuse has long been recognised as one of the foremost critical urban scholars of our era. He has been writing about and participating in ur...

The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for ho...

The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an ...

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income irregular se...

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive poli...

Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning...

The Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration program was created by Congress to give the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and local...

Farmworkers play a critical role in the nation''''s agricultural sector. However, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), farmworke...