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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"housing security"”.
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Housing-Related Migration in the Marcellus Shale Region of Pennsylvania
… Marcellus region and its attendant effects on housing security as a primary motive for mobility. Using a mixed-methods approach, geomobility and migration data from public records a weak association between movers and housing availability. Observations from key informants contextualize the …
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Exploring Trauma-Informed Practice and Equity in Vancouver’s DTES and Chinatown Programming
… a non-profit organization working to improve housing security and habitability for tenants living in Single Room Occupancy Buildings (SROs) in Vancouver’s DTES and Chinatown neighbourhoods. The research question was: How might the Collaborative explore the connection between trauma-informed …
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Fragments of Home: Domestic Businesswomen and Collective Motherhood
… for thinking about communal family structures, housing security, and intimate domestic space, through the lens of designing for single mother households in New York City. The housing crisis in cities across the country specifically affects single mothers and children, yet these identities are …
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Seeding Trust, Sustaining Equity: Funding and Financing Relationships in the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network
… trusts (CLTs) as one tool for stable, affordable housing and local autonomy over urban planning processes is growing rapidly—particularly in the past decade, in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis and the destruction of wealth and housing security that foreclosure waves wreaked across the …
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Within the red lines: a qualitative case study of food insecurity among homeless people in one of Kansas City’s historically redlined districts
… has led to increased homelessness and food insecurity. Most research on the links between food insecurity and homelessness in the United States is guided by cumulative risk and stress process theories. Both theories shed light on the individual and community-level factors that influence …
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Assessment of technical and scale efficiency of public clinics in eSwatini
… (agriculture, education, infrastructure, housing, security, defence etc..). As a result, there is always a limit on how much funding developing countries local governments are able to allocate to their health sector. Limited heath sector funding in the presence of significant health care …
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Full house : occupancy standards, normative zoning, and the responses of U.S. cities to changing households
… households. However, U.S. zoning codes and housing markets have long favored single-family homes and living arrangements. Have cities adapted to changing household trends? If so, how? Whether they have or not, what influences their responses? This thesis addresses these questions through a …
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Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study
… to a lack of access to urban land, adequate housing, security of tenure, education, employment and basic services and to polluted and degraded environments in informal settlements. The study concludes that the social, economic and environmental challenges that informal settlement communities …
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Understanding behavioral health symptoms in children experiencing housing and food insecurity
BACKGROUND: Modifiable social needs that include housing security, housing conditions, and food security can impact children’s behavioral health. Boston Children’s Primary Care has entered into an accountable care arrangement that has allotted funds for “flexible services” to direct housing or food …
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Sanitation and social power in the United States
… In particular, race inequalities related to housing have contributed to reduced housing security which exacerbates problems related to water and sanitation. Existing political economic theories of the environment would cast these two communities as separate from economic structures, …
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Understanding the Occupational Therapy Perspective of Working with the Homeless Population: Self-Care Interventions
<p>Successful interventions, focused on self-care, have been implemented by occupational therapists in homeless populations. Yet, no study has attempted to explore experiences of occupational therapists implementing self-care interventions. This qualitative, descriptive study sought to understand …