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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
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WORKING THE GREY AREA: Street‑Level Refugee Housing Governance in Sweden
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how refugee housing provision under the Swedish dispersal programme produces uneven pathways to housing stability. Although residence‐permit‐holding refugees assigned to the municipalities are granted the right to housing, there are no stipulations regarding housing type, quality, or duration, resulting in significant ...
Nicolina Ewards Öberg
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Interventions for socioeconomic inclusion and post-traumatic growth in youth with histories of homelessness and sex trafficking: a scoping review protocol. [PDF]
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how urban–national polarization shapes how progressive cities exercise local autonomy. It introduces a new framework for assessing polarization within specific policy domains, distinguishing between ideological and pragmatic polarization.
Harel Nachmany, Tal Alster, Nufar Avni
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the rise of impact investment in social housing in an age of entrenched financialization and enduring public underinvestment through the case of philanthropic investors in Southern Ontario, Canada. Social finance scholarship has highlighted tensions between financial and social returns, while overlooking the role of place
Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Participation is a topic that has been widely debated in urban studies. Despite this, we argue in this paper that policies and academic work on mobility planning have paid little attention to the meanings attached to participation and its role in mobility justice.
Aline Fernandes Barata, Sue Brownill
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Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
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Nurse Practitioner Roles and Contributions in a Mobile Health Clinic for People Experiencing Homelessness. [PDF]
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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