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Cities and homelessness : essays and case studies on practices, innovations and challenges
Gonzalez, Joaquin Jay (ed.); McGee, Mickey P. (ed.) - 2021
"Homelessness in America's cities remains an intractable and growing problem. Challenges facing the homeless today the … room hotels. Homelessness rates are affected by economic trends, lack of affordable healthcare and housing, decline in …, practices and policies of municipalities coping with homelessness in the 21st century." …
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Invisible city : poverty, housing, and new urbanism
Gilderbloom, John I.; Gilderbloom, John Ingram - 2008 - 1. ed.
Introduction and overview -- Economic, social, and political dimensions of the rental housing crisis / with Richard P. Appelbaum and Michael Anthony Campbell -- Why rents rise / with Zhenfeng Pan, Tom Lehman, Stephen A. Roosa, and Richard P. Appelbaum -- Pros and cons of rent control / with Lin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003420191
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From rural poverty to urban poverty: a case study in Shanxi
Zhang, Mei - In: China aktuell : journal of current Chinese affairs 36 (2007) 2, pp. 9-38
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Inequality among the rural poor : a tale of two cities in India and Vietnam
Liu, Amy Y. C. - 2009
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Small loans, big dreams : how Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus and microfinance are changing the world
Counts, Alex - 2008
Muhammad Yunus -from Vanderbilt to Chittagong -- The birth of the Grameen Bank -- Zianpur Bazaar -- Las Papillons -- Amena Begum's dream -- Omiyale Dupart -- The Haldar Para -- The Maxwell Street market -- Krishna Das Bala -- The hip hop shop -- Dry money in a monsoon -- The black on black love...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003585563
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Urban poverty and governance : the case of Multan city
Chaudhry, Imran Sharif - In: The Pakistan development review : PDR 45 (2006) 4: Papers and proceedings, pp. 819-830
This study attempts to discuss the factors that influence urban poverty, with a special focus on governance. The concept of governance has gained significant attention in international policy-making, and also recently in Pakistan. Generally speaking, governance means the process of...
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Income distribution dynamics of urban residents : the case of China (1995 - 2004)
Zhou, Hao; Wei Zou - In: Frontiers of economics in China : selected publications … 5 (2010) 1, pp. 114-134
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