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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Evictions"”.
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The Clongorey Evictions
… a formal history of the events surrounding the evictions, that took place on the O'Kelly estate situated on the margins of the 'Bog of Allen' in County Kildare in the late 1800s. The aim of this thesis is to rectify this by telling the story and asking a number of questions of these events and …
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The Use of Force in Mass Evictions
… dissertation focuses on the use of force during evictions, particularly in the context of mass evictions (where mass evictions are defined as the eviction of a group of people from unlawfully occupied property). The South African approach to the use of force during evictions is evaluated through …
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Unlawfully occupying the bridge to transformation: a case for judicial exploration when evictions are unjust and inequitable
… occupiers grows rapidly, making immediate evictions impossible as they would be unjust and inequitable as per the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act 19 of 1998. The Constitutional Court has previously awarded constitutional damages in a similar case …
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The homelessness prevention puzzle : roles of landlords, tenants and professionals in preventing evictions and preserving affordable housing
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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"Every day is difficult for my body and my heart." Forced evictions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Women's narratives of risk and resilience
… analysis to explore the question: How do forced evictions impact the psychosocial health of displaced women in Phnom Penh, and what sources of risk and resilience frame how they manage the exigencies of displacement? I use Stress and Coping Theory to frame analysis of the narratives of evicted …
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Eviction Behaviour in the Kalahari Meerkats
Evictions are common in a substantial number of social species, yet they have seldom been studied in detail, and we know relatively little about the causes and consequences of eviction. While previous research has largely focused on the profiles of subordinate females (evictees) that make them most …
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"Don't Destroy Our Neighborhood": Neighborhood Imaginaries and the Politics of Upzoning / Displacement through Development: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Residential Eviction and Capital Investment
… between building permit activity and residential evictions in Seattle and Tacoma, pointing to a robust pattern in which evictions immediately precede demolition and remodeling activity. Additionally, permit activity in the surrounding neighborhood is associated with an increased risk of eviction, …
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Representations of post-2000 displacement in Zimbabwean women's literature
… literature by Zimbabwean women that explores evictions and migrations of people from 2000 to 2009 when the crisis subsided with the enactment of the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
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Denis Kilbride M.P. 1848-1924
… life and times, which included the Luggacurren evictions of which he played a major part, his path to political life and his representation of three constituencies, south Kerry, north Galway and south Kildare for a period of thirty-one years. As a result of the prolonged depression in …
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"Museu das remoções" potencia de resistencia creativa y efectiva como respuesta sociocultural a Río de Janeiro en mega eventos.
This paper will examine the construction of the Evictions Museum in Vila Autódromo, which took place amidst the rise of various civil rights movements in Rio de Janeiro. The introduction of a form of city management called 'urban entrepreneurship,' (Harvey, 1996) prompted a steady loss of civil …
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Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics
… with Evan Soltas), studies the causes of evictions from rental housing and the welfare impact of policy interventions to address them. Court evictions from rental housing are common but could be avoided if landlords and tenants bargained instead. Such evictions are inefficient if they are …
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Smiling in the face of precarity: housing and eviction in Hangberg, South Africa
… the brutality of apartheid South Africa. Yet, evictions and a lack of affordable housing, has been a common feature of the post-apartheid South African city as well. In Hangberg evictions and housing where part of the struggle of ordinary life. With a lack of affordable housing the people …
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One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship
… tenant organizing direct action tactics to fight evictions and harassment. Six residents from five large-scale housing co-ops in Ontario participated in this research. Their experiences are compared and contrasted to the experiences of eight residents from seven housing co-ops in the Milton-Parc …
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Spirit of the land : politics, memory, and the sacred in South African land claims
… and legal analysis of forced removals, evictions, and relocations, the thesis calls attention to the role of religion in South African land claims. Although the people in these case studies believe that returning to their original land will materially improve their lives, their main …
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'Não são tijolos; são histórias': The Favela Housing Rights Movement of Rio de Janeiro
… rights use environmentalist discourse to justify evictions of informal settlements—charging them with being ‘invaders’ that spoil the natural habitat of the city. In response, favela residents have re-appropriated the discourse of environmentalism to position and re-brand themselves as …
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An analysis of how Zimbabwe’s international legal obligation to achieve the realisation of the right of access to adequate housing, can be enforced in domestic courts as a constitutional right, notwithstanding the absence of a specific constitutional right of every person to have access to adequate housing
… acute shortage of adequate housing, mass forced evictions and unfair discrimination in the allocation of housing facilities by government. There is therefore an existing need to compel government to comply with and fulfil its international legal obligations relating to the right of every person …
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Transitional housing as an inclusionary planning intervention: The pickwick transitional housing project
… services (Ndifuna Ukwazi, 2021), whilst ongoing evictions and displacements of hundreds of families from inner-city neighbourhoods culminate in “a systemic crisis that has been going on for over a decade” (Pillay, et al., 2017:2; also see Le Grange, 1985). In response to the ongoing housing …
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Addressing Homelessness and Housing Crisis in Windsor-Essex County
… for program operators, and preventing unlawful evictions.
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Using machine learning to identify populations at high risk for eviction as an indicator of homelessness
… planning government budgets based on predicted evictions.
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Fairness for resource allocation in cloud computing.
… time due to a considerable number of pod evictions. This thesis seeks to address these substantial gaps. First, a new mechanism is introduced to calculate shares among users, considering a fair-share function that solves a utility maximization problem. Furthermore, a new queuing mechanism …
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