Boligspørgsmål og hjemløshed

Hvordan portrætterer man mennesker, der ikke længere er blandt os? Den udfordring kaster fotograf Helga Theilgaard sig over med værket De Rodløse – vi der er tilbage, hvor hun stiller skarpt på livet og ikke mindst overdødeligheden blandt hjemløse. Sløret af sorthvide plamager fremstår de opløste ansigter ugenkendelige. Som et vidnesbyrd om de mennesker som i 2008 stod foran Helga Theilgaards kamera i atelieret i København og fortalte deres historier. Men som i 2021 ikke længere var, da hun forsøgte at genfinde dem. Det barske liv på gaden havde overhalet både dem og hende inden om. Efter at have opsøgt byens væresteder, herberger og gadens netværk var Helga Theilgaard rystet. Tretten ud af de tredive hjemløse, hun havde portrætteret i 2008, var døde af sygdom, selvmord eller misbrug. Flere var forsvundet. Og andre var så syge, at de ikke har haft mulighed for at mødes med hende igen. Erkendelsen af, at næsten halvdelen af de mennesker, hun tidligere havde portrætteret, nu var døde - de fleste alt for tidligt – fik Helga Theilgaard til at ændre projektets karakter. Mens de tilbageværende hjemløse blev genfotograferet, blev portrætterne af de afdøde først gravet ned og senere udsat for en kemisk proces og indscannet på ny. På den måde er værket en visuel fortælling om overdødeligheden blandt hjemløse mennesker, der kan forvente at leve knap 19 år kortere end mennesker med fast bopæl. En fortælling om, at de vægge, de fleste af os kalder hjem, ikke kun beskytter mod fordømmende blikke, men også skærmer vores krop, når livet slår fra sig. Og ikke mindst en påmindelse om den enorme ulighed, der stadig hersker i Danmark.

Denne håndbog handler om den almene bolig, som er en unik boligform for Danmark.Ca. 1 million mennesker bor i boligområder med nærdemokrati. De vælger egne bestyrelser og har stemmeret ved større beslutninger.Det er en stor udfordring for enhver at skulle sætte sig ind i reglerne for beboerdemokratiet og for lovgivningens øvrige spilleregler for administration af almen boliger.Du kan hente konkret hjælp i denne grundige håndbog, der egner sig til opslag og uddannelsesformål.Håndbogen er skrevet af advokat i KAB Birthe Houlind, men med bidrag fra en række eksperter i og udenfor KAB.

En samtidsfortælling om en ung forfatters jagt på succes, kærlighed og en lejlighed, der er til at betale i København …Samler alt materialet fra de fire numre af Working Poor, flere helt nye sider, efterskrift og forfatterens egne omfattende fodnoter.Om Working Poor:“Lars Kramhøfts Working Poor bekræfter mig i, at jeg ikke er alene om at fejle til fester!”Zissel Astrid Kjertum-Mohr (Zissel & Eliten, ArtyFarty)“Lars Kramhøft hiver økonomisk ulighed frem som en fælles fjende. Han viser os, hvor vi går galt af hinanden.”Glenn Bech (Farskibet og Jeg anerkender ikke længere jeres autoritet)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE"Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care."-PeopleNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • NewsdayIn this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi's "most-everything girl," might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds-and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. WINNER OF: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award • The Los Angeles Times Book Prize • The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award • The New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book AwardNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • Minneapolis Star Tribune • Salon • The Plain Dealer • The Week • Kansas City Star • Slate • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly

A vivid and devastating (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl-from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths. -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City's homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter to protect those who I love. When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott's Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality-told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award.

From the award-winning founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT: A transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor, their lives, desires, and frustrations

Cuando apenas era una estudiante universitaria, recuerdo cómo mi corazón se oprimió al observar la carita de dolor de un niño de la calle, una carita marcada por el abandono, la soledad y una gran tristeza; su única compañía era una botella de pegante y me pregunté: ¿por qué el gobierno no los protege?, ¡no hay derecho a tanta miseria!, ¡ellos tienen el derecho a vivir dignamente!, pero el abandono estatal, la guerra interna que desplaza familias campesinas que deben huir, dejando todas sus pertenencias, a mendigar en las ciudades el pan que en su tierra se ganaban.Esta historia está basada en muchos eventos que escucha-mos a diario sobre los diversos actos de corrupción que enlodan al país y que devastan familias. Lo poco que de ellas queda, debe huir, correr para salvar sus vidas.Los invito para que nos unamos y luchemos por la paz y el orden que solo se logra cuando se aplica justicia, para que muchos niños puedan tener una vida digna.A mis lectores, que Dios los bendiga.

2nd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2023-This collection of poetic observations derives from years of volunteer work, both at a homeless clinic and a women's day shelter.

"Explore 'Unveiling the Unseen: A Novel Approach to Homelessness' on Lulu Book Publishing and major bookstores worldwide. Authored by Dr. Cornel D. Stemley, this self-published work provides fresh insights into homelessness, analyzing Homeless Outreach Team perspectives. From historical roots to effective solutions, this book offers a compelling narrative.

"In Los Angeles's most underserved communities, Lori Weise is known as the Dog Lady, the woman who's spent decades caring for people in poverty and the animals that love them. Long before anyone else, Weise grasped that animal and human suffering are inextricably connected and created a new rescue narrative, an enduring safety net empowering pet owners and providing resources to reduce the number of pets coming into shelters. Rethinking Rescue unites the causes of animal welfare and social justice, moving between Weise's story and that of the U.S. rescue movement: from the dog's twentieth-century transition from property to family to the rise of the no kill campaign to stop shelter euthanasia and the contradictions that hampered those efforts. Through captivating storytelling and investigative reporting, Carol Mithers examines the consequences of bias within this overwhelmingly white movement, where an overemphasis on placing animals in affluent homes often disregards pet owners in poverty. Weise's innovative and ultimately triumphant efforts revealed a better way"--

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our democratic capacities and created complex crises. The Death of Home aims to intellectually engage readers via enhancing spatial literacy to critically confront today's crises.

"The unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San Francisco In the Mayor of Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco's Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour-whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping, and drug dealing. Once sober, he started Tenderloin Walking Tours and later Code Tenderloin, the remarkable organization teaching homeless, recovering addicts, sex workers, dealers, ex-felons, and other marginalized people how to get and keep a job. Owings traces Del's story and those in his orbit: from his daughters, sobriety buddy, and ex-girlfriend, to a police captain and a psychiatric social worker, housing activists and corporate philanthropists, and Del's Code Tenderloin students. In the Tenderloin, in a city known for its beauty and currently infamous for its divide between haves and have-nots, Owings highlights how Del gives back to people struggling with the same daunting setbacks-including a criminal record-he once faced. Honest and compelling, The Mayor of Tenderloin follows homelessness in one of America's toughest neighborhoods as it was lived-in the words of someone who lived it and is now fighting to solve it"--

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book sheds light on the challenges faced by Irish social housing residents, including substandard living conditions and unsafe environments that harm physical and mental health. It emphasizes the 'networks of care' and mutual aid in working-class communities and addresses the right to adequate public housing at the local level. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the life-or-death importance of housing quality and the necessity for long-term collaboration between housing and health sectors. Adopting a 'City of Care' approach, which prioritizes social capital, affordable housing, and community infrastructure, is vital. This book advocates for systemic reform that incorporates an ethics of care into all policies, a crucial step in promoting public health and social justice in Europe and beyond.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2023.

At the turn of the 20th century, social reformer Jane Addams provides a thought-provoking look at the economic vulnerabilities facing young working women in America's industrial centers. Addams' account draws on her groundbreaking work at Chicago's Hull House settlement, casting an empathetic yet unflinching eye on the harsh realities of poverty and gender inequality.Through piercing observation and insightful analysis, Addams documents the poor working and living conditions plaguing female garment and domestic workers. She exposes their low wages, long hours, unsafe work spaces, and lack of bargaining power or legal protections. Addams' examination reveals complex links between socioeconomic forces and these women's susceptibility to exploitation.Arguing for societal remedies over superficial charity, Addams proposes novel solutions to uplift working women through education, community organization, and labor reforms. Her examination of women's economic independence speaks strikingly to ongoing relevance today. Addams' blend of steadfast idealism with unsentimental pragmatism provides an thought-provoking portrait of belated justice for working women.A Belated Industry brings Addams' progressive vision to life through empathetic portraits of young women struggling to retain dignity and hope in the churning Industrial-era economy. This compelling snapshot illuminates the beginnings of Addams' iconic career advocating for society's most vulnerable.

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Experts from across the globe review leading social policy scholarship in this new volume in the Social Policy Review series. Specialists explore local and multi-level trends in social policy including government responses to the cost-of-living crisis in the UK and decentralisation in primary health care in Thailand. They also review policy responses to working age risks in England, Italy and Australia, as well as policy developments and transformations such as social protection in Japan and Australia and immigration resettlement schemes in the UK. Published in association with the Social Policy Association, the latest book in this respected series will be essential reading for students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.

A groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America's homelessness crisis. In And Housing for All, founder of the National Homelessness Law Center Maria Foscarinis reveals the human impact of the housing crisis by sharing personal stories and examining the flawed policies that have perpetuated it. As millions face rising housing costs and encampments spread nationwide, she uncovers why past efforts have failed and what must change to achieve lasting solutions. Drawing from over 35 years of national advocacy, Foscarinis shares compelling stories of individuals and families impacted by homelessness, highlighting their resilience and growing leadership. Blending personal narratives with policy analysis, she reveals how deliberate decisions have fueled the crisis and how public narratives have sustained it. And Housing for All is essential reading for social justice advocates, policymakers, lawyers, and anyone invested in solving one of America's most pressing challenges.