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Sheltered housing compared to independent housing in the community
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2008Background: With elderly people desiring to live independently as long as possible, traditional homes for the elderly are increasingly being transformed into sheltered accommodations. In order to assess the importance of housing for frail elderly people, elderly people at risk for institutionalization were studied in two living conditions: sheltered ...
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Cities, 1994
Abstract This study identifies commonly recognized requirements for urban housing. No known urban housing scheme satisfies all of these because they are considered to be incompatible. However, departure from traditional use allocations to ground and first floor permits all the requirements to be satisfied.
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Abstract This study identifies commonly recognized requirements for urban housing. No known urban housing scheme satisfies all of these because they are considered to be incompatible. However, departure from traditional use allocations to ground and first floor permits all the requirements to be satisfied.
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Sheltered Housing and Community
Social Policy & Administration, 1999This paper considers the role of sheltered housing following the introduction of new community care arrangements in 1993 and examines the continuing uncertainty about its exact role as community care continues to develop. It reports on a study conducted in Shropshire, using a postal survey and interviews with older people and service professionals. The
Andrew Nocon, Nicholas Pleace
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Temporary Housing, Permanent Communities
Journal of Urban History, 2007The Puerto Rico Housing Authority was created in 1938 as a consequence of the 1937 U.S. Federal Housing Act. Increased migration to Puerto Rico's urban centers had resulted in overflowing slums. Public housing became the prime solution. In 1964, Luis Muñoz Marín, first Puerto Rican elected governor and the first governor under the formally defined ...
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1989
There is growing evidence that residents in areas of unpopular public-sector Council housing suffer from disproportionate levels of crime and other forms of social abuse. Many studies of run-down housing have been made by criminologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, architects and other social researchers in an attempt to establish direct ...
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There is growing evidence that residents in areas of unpopular public-sector Council housing suffer from disproportionate levels of crime and other forms of social abuse. Many studies of run-down housing have been made by criminologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, architects and other social researchers in an attempt to establish direct ...
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Housing and Community Development
2012Having discussed why the principal-agent paradigm is useful, having established its profile, and having demonstrated how it relates to the nonprofit as a social capital asset and agent of public policy, this chapter and the next are about perspectives gained in implementing the principal-agent paradigm.
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