Boligspørgsmål og hjemløshed

"Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney-a Black nonbinary teenager overflowing with life-in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old and driven from home, Forney was the heart of the community, known for infectious laughter, fierce loyalty to friends, and an unshakeable faith that "my God will love me for who I am." Then Forney was murdered, a moment of horror and devastation that exposed the brutality that teenagers like Forney faced in a city marked by gentrification, housing insecurity, and the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic. Motivated by Forney's spirit, Siciliano fought to create a home where unhoused teens could live and feel loved-bolstered by his own exclusion from the church as a gay Catholic man. This is Siciliano's story of mending hearts broken by displacement and rejection, including his own. Siciliano shares what he learned from Forney and thousands of other queer teens-wounded, brave, vibrant people who lived true to their inner experiences and created family under desperate circumstances-while he helped lead a movement that compelled New York City to invest millions of dollars in kids who'd been ignored for decades. Written with heart and profound insight, Making Room is a landmark personal narrative, bringing to life an untold chapter of LGBTQ history and testifying to the power of community, solidarity, and the human spirit"--

Are you homeless...unloved...loved? Will you journey with me to the depths of despair? Will you journey with me to the heights of joy ... to a spiritual awakening of the good in every man? Please come with me.

Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Poverty refers to a situation or state in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and necessities essential for maintaining a minimum standard of living. It usually has multiple economic, social, and political causes and effects. Poverty-ridden individuals and households are often unable to make ends meet and they seldom have access to proper housing, clean water, healthy food, and medical facilities. Poverty reduction is a set of economic and humanitarian measures or policies aimed at bringing the poverty-stricken individuals out of poverty. Economic growth is the most effective tool for eliminating poverty and improving the standard of living in developing nations. It has also resulted in better access to opportunities and basic services, creation of new jobs, improved incomes, and increased pace of poverty reduction. This book discusses the current and emerging issues in poverty reduction and economic growth. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language, and extensive use of examples make it an invaluable source of knowledge.

Migration refers to the movement of people from one location to another for various reasons including better security, escaping poverty, pursuing higher education, finding better jobs, escaping human rights violations, and achieving socio-economic equality. Poverty is a condition of having low level of income or lack of material possessions. It can be caused due to a variety of political, social and economic factors. Socioeconomic inequality refers to a social situation in which there is a significant disparity in economic prosperity among the least and most affluent members of the society. Poverty and socioeconomic inequality can lead to migration among a population in order to seek better opportunities and living conditions. Migration, poverty, and socioeconomic inequality studies examine the effect of immigration on the labor market competition and its effect on native workers. It also examines the impact that immigration has on population and the socioeconomic status of immigrants and the natives. The topics covered in this extensive book deal with the relationship between migration, poverty and socioeconomic inequality. It will serve as a valuable source of reference for graduate and postgraduate students.