The hidden millions : homelessness in developing countries /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tipple, A. Graham
Otros Autores: Speak, Suzanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Colección:Housing and society series.
Temas:
Homelessness.
Homelessness > Developing countries.
Homeless persons > Housing > Developing countries.
Housing policy > Developing countries.
Itinérance.
homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Homeless persons > Housing
Homelessness
Housing policy
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Current understandings of homelessness
  • 2. Homelessness and international housing policy
  • 3. The continuing urban housing shortfall and affordability crisis
  • 4. Defining homelessness in developing countries
  • 5. Accommodation conditions and differentiating between homeless people and those in inadequate housing
  • 6. Estimating the hidden millions
  • 7. Who are the hidden millions? The characteristics of homeless people
  • 8. Economic, social and cultural causes
  • 9. Political and legal issues
  • 10. Disaster and conflict
  • 11. Exclusion, perceptions and isolation
  • 12. Children and homelessness
  • 13. Towards strategic interventions for homeless people
  • Bibliography.

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