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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Energy Conservation- Residential Building

2020 International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Energy, Environment and Climate Change (ICUE), 2020
An important part of environmental impact assessment is to study the energy use of a building. Different patterns of energy consumption, behavior of consumer and use of natural energy resources are deciding factors for sustainable life of the building and resident.
Atharav Joshi   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Capacity Building in Residential Care

Healthcare Management Forum, 2011
A retrospective analysis of how the Dementia Care Program (DCP) contributed to capacity building at The Lodge at Broadmead (2004–2009) was conducted in 2010. Results showed facility-wide enhancements in (1) information capital, because of educational workshops and other forms of interactive learning for all staff, and (2) social capital, because of ...
Nancy, Gnaedinger, Robinson, Janice
openaire   +2 more sources

Towards 2020: Zero-Energy Building for Residential and Non-Residential Buildings

2014
This chapter assesses the options for both non-residential and residential buildings to reach a zero-energy building (ZEB) standard. Besides the already widely practiced consistent minimization of the energy demand for heating and hot water supply of buildings, further progress can be made by minimizing the electric energy demand.
Hannes Hebenstreit   +3 more
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