Homelessness And Housing Exclusion
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The task of studying the impact of social class on physical and mental health involves, among other things, the use of a conceptual toolbox that defines what social class is, establishes how to measure it, and sets criteria that help... more
The paper discusses Derrida's concept of hospitality which perfectly describes the experience of loosing the sense of feeling at home and reveals the disintegrating entrance of the Otherness into a coherent home space. Jacques Derrida's... more
This study documents the child welfare experiences of youth who are LGBTQ and their perspectives on how these experiences influenced their housing instability and homelessness. Youth detailed incidents of gender segregation,... more
This research, conducted by the author when a Senior Researcher at Newcastle University, UK, was funded by a UK governance organisation to help them assess, integrate and improve their understanding of the governed population.... more
The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political economy. Housing-as-policy has been the preserve of social policy analysis and of a growing field of housing studies; housing-as-market has been... more
One of the significant developments in the interdisciplinary field of judgment and decision making is the classification of environments as a function of (a) their capacity to enable people to learn from experience (kind environments vs.... more
Existing research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth homelessness identifies family rejection as a main pathway into homelessness for the youth. This finding, however, can depict people of color or poor people... more
An analysis of how the integrated model of allostasis enables a more rigorous and detailed understanding of the mechanisms through which economic exploitation and social exclusion negatively affect well-being and health.
A building construction project is a high risk activity which must be managed effectively in all stages, in order to avoid delays and cost overruns, which in most cases are part of it, and a common problem. These problems occur frequently... more
This chapter examines the plight of homeless peoples in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as a consequence of their enmeshment in a new logic of urban governance being effected by city officials and municipal planners. I argue that the widespread... more
Shimla town, popularly known queen of hills in Himachal Pradesh, is facing the problems typically faced by any hilly region like unplanned urbanization, illegal encroachments, violation of planning/ building norms, soil erosion, flooding,... more
The state of cities in North-western India including in Haryana leave much to be desired. Faridabad, the largest class I as well as million plus metropolitan city of Haryana state, selected for the study is not an exception to the general... more
Rapport de recherche financé par le Ddass 06, remis en février 2010. Prenant appui sur les travaux de T. Paquot, la tripartition habitation/habitat/habiter est transposée à la clinique de la rue. Cette transposition a un double intérêt :... more
The study of Srinagar metropolis located in northern province of Jammu and Kashmir, highlights that there deficiencies in urbanisation; planning and governance; infrastructure and services; housing, slums and urban poverty; disaster... more
Garland, C. (2014) ‘As Barriers Fall, Contingency Becomes Possibility: Protest Resisting and Escaping Containment and Categorization’, Part II Identity, Embodiment and Categorisation in Eds. Lamond, I. and Spracklen, K. 'Protests as... more
No Brasil, há um contingente significativo de pessoas em situação de rua.
"This course focuses on the planning and design of cities from a radical perspective. It investigates how the planning of urban space has been critiqued in the literature and the everyday approaches to planning that have been employed by... more
Although planned as the " City of Tomorrow " , the Bijlmer district in Amsterdam quickly became the quintessential symbol of urban decline. Today, even with half of the planned renewal of the Bijlmer completed, the alleged success of this... more
This is a paper prepared by me for the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore-CRERI Real Estate Research Initiative. The paper is intended as a overview of the affordable housing sector with special emphasis on India. Affordable Housing... more
Around 2 million youth experience homelessness each year, and LGBTQ youth are estimated to make up at least 40 percent of the population of youth experiencing homelessness in the United States, despite being about 5-8 percent of the U.S.... more
Homelessness complicates the educational experiences of students. The article provides a look at how residential instability impacts their engagement in college. The author gives insight into how campuses can support these youth.
Chandigarh, the first planned city of North-west India saw the growth of slums and segregated growth of the poor settlements in the past. Although Chandigarh has been taking some initiatives to provide housing and basic services to the... more
At the heart of this proof of evidence is an evaluation of the regeneration benefits and disbenefits of the First Development Site (FDS) proposals for the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) Land. In my evidence I will describe, explain and... more
This study examined the experiences that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and 2-Spirit (LGBTQ2S) homeless youth have in shelters and the disjunctures that occur for this population in Toronto’s shelter system. The... more
This course introduces students to some of the major thematic concerns that have traditionally shaped urban geography, with a particular emphasis on the implications of planning and development. It also allows students to engage with... more
Authors: Billie Allan & Izumi Sakamoto.
Pages: pp. 57-85
Pages: pp. 57-85
This is an ethnographic study of a marginal neighbourhood of Hong Kong, Sham Shui Po. It focuses on the everyday lives of Hong Kong’s urban poor in Sham Shui Po. By taking an insider’s point of view, this study examines how... more
Dans les sociétés occidentales modernes, les personnes exclues du logement de droit commun sont très minoritaires mais leur nombre a augmenté ces dernières années. Elles se retrouvent dans diverses situations d’habitat : hébergements chez... more
This article addresses the topic of the current issue of the journal (processes of poverty and social exclusion) by (re)framing the working class position of dispossessed Roma through a case study conducted in Romanian localities. The... more
This report examines the dynamics of how socio-spatial exclusion and how it plays out around homeless shelters in the Indian city of Hyderabad. Using the concept of NIMBY (Not-In-My-Back_Yard), the analysis reveals how exclusion is based... more
Since the end of the Second World War, housing exclusion is ruled by a central standard time: The turnover of the poor inside the social services. The duration of stay in relief accommodations is indeed very often restricted. As many... more
This paper argues that access of the poor to a home is a precondition of their ability to benefit from development practice. Besides being an ideological construct, a home also provides space for the daily survival of its dwellers, who... more
En soixante ans, les conditions de logement n’ont cessé de s’améliorer grâce à un effort sans précédent de construction et de rénovation de l’habitat encouragé par les pouvoirs publics. Aujourd’hui, pratiquement tous les logements... more
The "refugee" notion in the international law means the persons who are outside their native countries and who do not desire to return or could not get back to their native countries by reason of the fact that "they are afraid of being... more
The aim of this paper is to investigate conflicts against Roma settlements by considering not only the decision-making processes and relations of force, but also the complex dynamics of the attempts to define the assets that are the... more
There is now a significant body of research literature on the meaning of home within philosophy, architecture and the social sciences, including some areas of law (especially British housing law). However, the extent to which this body of... more