Beyond Shelter

Author : James Hughes
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781459413566

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Newspapers, television and films cast homeless shelters as places of desperation, sadness and sickness. However, over the last 25 years, homeless shelters have changed dramatically. Shelters have become more professional and sophisticated in addressing homelessness in their communities. They now do much more than provide a bed and a meal for the night — they offer different methods of intervention, different types of services and different forms of connection to the communities they serve. This book offers essays by experienced shelter managers who address the future of the homeless shelter in Canada. This diverse collection also includes a chapter by Dr. Sam Tsemberis, the father of the successful Housing First Model. There are contributions by leaders in the homelessness field from across Canada, who have been at the forefront of developing unique services for women, youth, Indigenous people, and families. The days of shelters serving to merely warehouse homeless people out of sight and mind are being replaced by specialized approaches that are reducing homelessness in Canada. The contributors have years of experience understanding the causes of and solutions to homelessness and the role that shelters can play in achieving their ultimate goal — the elimination of all forms of homelessness in Canada.

Author : Marie Jeannine Aquilino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1935202472

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Twenty-five reports from the field by leaders of architecture and engineering firms, non-profits, research centers, and international agencies, on disaster prevention and sustainable recovery efforts in urban and rural locales around the world.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788148460

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Presents the U.S. Report for Habitat II, the Second Global Conference on Human Settlements, held in Istanbul, Turkey in June 1996. The report discusses cities in America and the challenges of the nation's urban areas. Presents information reflecting strategies that can be adopted to strengthen America's cities in the 21st century. Included are profiles and highlights of successful urban programs already in existence -- Chattanooga, TN; Lindsborg, KS; Chicago; Brooklyn, NY; Detroit; Los Angeles; Newark, NJ, and more. The concluding section reflects the voice of urban America by summarizing local input from Habitat town meetings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Community development
ISBN : UCR:31210024734822

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Author : David Sanderson,Jeni Burnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317976967

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Beyond Shelter after Disaster: Practice, Process and Possibilities by David Sanderson,Jeni Burnell Pdf

Providing shelter after a disaster is recognised as one of the most complex areas of humanitarian relief and recovery. Some aid agencies have stopped providing shelter altogether after bad experiences, while those that do quickly become engaged in challenges that go far beyond the provision of structures alone. Yet with the number and severity of disasters set to increase, due to climate change and rapid urban growth, the need for approaches that work has never been greater. This book explores the issues in three parts. The first, Practice, looks at lessons from past efforts. Part two, Process, proposes practical and effective people-centred approaches. Part three considers currently neglected issues such as disability, human rights and urban-oriented approaches. Through practical case studies and academic research, Beyond Shelter after Disaster critiques past methods and explores future options for improving practice in one of the most complex areas of post disaster relief and recovery. This book was originally published as a special issue in Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions.

Author : Martha Savanna Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3408266

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Beyond Shelter, Architecture as a Learning Tool and a Living Environment by Martha Savanna Whitney Pdf

Author : David Sanderson,Jeni Burnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317976974

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Beyond Shelter after Disaster: Practice, Process and Possibilities by David Sanderson,Jeni Burnell Pdf

Providing shelter after a disaster is recognised as one of the most complex areas of humanitarian relief and recovery. Some aid agencies have stopped providing shelter altogether after bad experiences, while those that do quickly become engaged in challenges that go far beyond the provision of structures alone. Yet with the number and severity of disasters set to increase, due to climate change and rapid urban growth, the need for approaches that work has never been greater. This book explores the issues in three parts. The first, Practice, looks at lessons from past efforts. Part two, Process, proposes practical and effective people-centred approaches. Part three considers currently neglected issues such as disability, human rights and urban-oriented approaches. Through practical case studies and academic research, Beyond Shelter after Disaster critiques past methods and explores future options for improving practice in one of the most complex areas of post disaster relief and recovery. This book was originally published as a special issue in Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015090417752

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The Housing Crisis in Los Angeles and Responses to Preventing Foreclosures and Foreclosure Rescue Fraud by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Pdf

Author : Diane Publishing Staff
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788147890

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Communities at Work: Addressing the Urban Challenge by Diane Publishing Staff Pdf

Highlights the achievements of 24 programs, all National Excellence Awards winners, that demonstrate how local initiative can help link residents of distressed communities to America's economic and social mainstream. The background, approach, and impact of each of the programs is discussed, as well as details of the achievements of each, and information on program contacts. Also includes program summaries of 28 finalists in the National Excellence Awards that provide a brief synopsis of each project's approach in addressing community challenges. Illustrated.

Author : Ralph DaCosta Nunez,Naomi Sugie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015059173883

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Beyond the Shelter Wall by Ralph DaCosta Nunez,Naomi Sugie Pdf

Homeless families speak out. Aurora Zepeda, University of California, San Diego.

Author : Andrew Paul Burtch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822404

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Give Me Shelter by Andrew Paul Burtch Pdf

What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization planned for just such a disaster and encouraged citizens to prepare their families and their cities for nuclear war. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Canada’s civil defence program was born in the early Cold War, when fears of conflict between the superpowers ran high. Give Me Shelter features previously unreleased documents detailing Canada’s nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how the organization publicly appealed to citizens to prepare for disaster themselves -- from volunteering as air-raid wardens to building fallout shelters. This tactic ultimately failed, however, due to a skeptical populace, chronic underfunding, and repeated bureaucratic fumbling. Give Me Shelter exposes the challenges of educating the public in the face of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. Give Me Shelter explains how governments and the public prepared for the unexpected. It is essential reading for historians, policymakers, and anybody interested in Canada’s Cold War home front.

Author : Frances Greenslade
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451661101

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After the tragic death of their father in a logging accident, sisters Maggie and Jenny see their idyllic mountain life fall apart as their mother abandons them to be raised by a childless couple.

Author : Iain De Jong
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781525554162

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The Book on Ending Homelessness by Iain De Jong Pdf

The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award winning industry leader to lay out how and why homelessness can be ended in very practical ways. This book will provoke and teach, serving as both inspiration and an instruction manual for those serious about combatting one of the most important social issues of our time. The book will reshape how you think about homelessness, as well as how strategies like sheltering, street outreach and day services all play a role in ending homelessness when operated with a housing-focused lens and the right service orientation. No doubt the book will reassure some that their thinking and actions regarding homelessness are bang on, while challenging others to think and respond differently in what they do and how they invest their money. Many of the ideas in the book elaborate upon ideas that Iain shares in his blog, keynote speeches and conference presentations, as well as the training series that Iain and his team have been offering for the past decade. If you are involved in homelessness issues or concerned about homelessness, this book is essential reading.

Author : Katja M Guenther
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503612860

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The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals by Katja M Guenther Pdf

“By investigating the . . . connection between the . . . shelter and the community . . . vastly expands . . . notions of intersectionality, democracy, and inclusivity.” —Leslie Irvine, American Journal of Sociology Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated with marginalized humans and assumed to embody certain behaviors because of his breed. And like approximately one million shelter animals each year, Monster will be killed. The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters. Katja M. Guenther witnesses the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned different animals, including Monster, which dictate their chances for survival. She argues that these inequalities are powerfully linked to human ideas about race, class, gender, ability, and species. Guenther deftly explores internal hierarchies, breed discrimination, and importantly, instances of resistance and agency. “Powerful and timely. . . . Katja M. Guenther unlocks the shelter door and eloquently explains this complicated and contested multispecies space, as she reflects on issues such as witnessing, vulnerability, advocacy, grievability, compassion, and animal resistance.” —Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat “In this compassionate, incisive ethnography . . . Katja M. Guenther illuminates the entangled injustices that shape human relationships with other animals.” —Lori Gruen, author of Entangled Empathy “With the perfect balance of intimacy and analytical depth, the author reminds us of how messy things can get when caring and killing become one, or when the value of the animal companion's life is measured by the race, gender, and zip code of the owner.” —Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog

Author : Prashan Ranasinghe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487522063

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Helter-Shelter by Prashan Ranasinghe Pdf

Helter-Shelter is an ethnographic account of the manner in which an emergency shelter is governed on a daily basis, from the perspective of the personnel who are employed and tasked with providing care. Prashan Ranasinghe focuses on how the founding ethos of the shelter, an ethic of care, is conceptualized and practiced by examining its successes and failures. Ranasinghe reveals how this logic is diluted and adulterated because of two other important logics, security and legality, which, working alongside, take precedence and trump the import of care. The care that is deployed is heavily legalized and securitized and it is also administered inconsistently and idiosyncratically. As a result, disorder and confusion pervade the shelter. Helter-Shelter offers a unique perspective on the delivery of care, and how this laudable intention faces such daunting challenges.