Housing Books

New and Published Books

1. Environmental Gerontology

   What Now?

   Edited by Rick Scheidt, Benyamin Schwarz

   Environmental gerontology – the research on aging and environment – evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and remains viable and active today...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social Housing in Transition Countries

   Edited by József Hegedüs, Martin Lux, Nóra Teller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what...

   Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Designed for Habitat

   Collaborations with Habitat for Humanity

   By David Hinson, Justin Miller

   If you're looking for ways to give back to your community, then this book, the first to profile thirteen projects designed and built by architects and Habitat for Humanity, will help. Detailed plans, sections, and photographs show you how these projects came about, the strategies used by each team...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Contextualizing Homelessness

   Critical Theory, Homelessness, and Federal Policy Addressing the Homeless

   By Kenneth Kyle

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This project employs three different disciplinary approaches--social constructionism, policy analysis, and rhetorical analysis--as a first step toward a critical theory of homelessness....

   Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge
5. The Microstructures of Housing Markets

   Edited by Susan J. Smith, Moira Munro

   House prices and mortgage debt have moved to centre stage in the management of national economies, regional development and neighbourhood change. Describing, analysing and understanding how housing markets work within and across these scales of economy and society has never been more urgent. But...

   Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
6. Young People, Housing and Social Policy

   Edited by Julie Rugg

   Presenting up-to-date empirical research on the subject of young people, housing and social policy in contemporary Britain, this book considers the issue of young people's early housing histories in the context of a range of government policy initiatives aimed at the group. It offers a critique of...

   Published June 16th 1999 by Routledge
7. Young & Homeless In Hollywood

   By Susan M. Ruddick

   First published in 1995...

   Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge