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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"temporary housing"”.
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Multi-Objective Optimization for Temporary Housing Arrangements After Natural Disasters
… and maximize the sustainability of integrated housing recovery efforts, which comply with the Alternative Housing Pilot Program (AHHP) proposed by FEMA and aims at developing innovative alternative housing projects to serve both as temporary and permanent housing. To this end, the study …
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Academic Performance among Homeless Students: Exploring Relationships of Socio-Economic and Demographic Variables
… homeless student academic performance, types of temporary housing used among the homeless, degree of stability or instability for families with school-aged children, child needs for academic success, the importance of parental involvement in a child's academic growth, and other known factors in …
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Community-based corrections: Offender characteristics and success in a halfway house
… from the prison to the community by providing temporary housing, job placement assistance, and other services. In addition, in many jurisdictions courts are sentencing offenders directly to halfway houses as a part of the conditions of probation. Past research suggests that some offenders may …
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More than Just a Roof over Their Heads Migrant Accommodation Centres and the Assimilation of “New Australians” 1947-1960
… considerations of these centres as substandard temporary housing to argue that they were more than roofs over the heads of migrants; rather they provided an important liminal space for early assimilation activity to occur. Through a variety of examples (such as the content of language lessons, …
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The Politics of Transformation: Improvement, Gender and Transitional Housing in Cape Town, South Africa
… the state-led project of Pickwick Transitional Housing in Cape Town. This empirical example offers insight into the ways in which housing models concerned with social, economic, and physical “transition” connect with housing [in]security and South African state agendas for transformation. …
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Fostering Well-Being: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth
… in their homes are often removed and placed in a temporary housing situation known as foster care. Despite this system’s goal of supporting youth, research suggests that foster care can negatively impact youths’ ability to heal and develop the skills they need to reach their goals and avoid future …
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TRANSITIONAL ACCOMMODATION AFTER DISASTER: Short term solutions for long term necessities
… global interest for developing emergency and temporary solutions. However, most proposals have tended to develop universal prototypes centred on the short-term product and not on the long-term process. The lack of architectural and institutional memory leads to proposals emerging after every …
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From Shelter to Home: Flexibility in Post-Disaster Accommodation
One of the most critical issues in housing families after a disaster is the gap between shortterm needs (emergency or temporary shelter) and long-term needs (permanent housing). In most cases, the process of achieving permanent accommodation takes years for various reasons, such as the removal of …