Several years ago, when I was helping care for my parents toward the end of their lives, they were adamant they wanted to stay in their home for as long as possible. I quickly realized we would need lots of help to honor their wishes. Finding quality and reliable in-home long-term car...
Parents and carers of disabled children face particular challenges in supporting them to live independently. At local authority level they are faced with poorly funded social care and a lack of commitment to independent living to ensure that disabled people can move out of their family home if ...
As part of a state disaster declaration issued on Memorial Day, Abbott, a Republican, directed state authorities to stop the licensing of shelters and foster care programs housing migrant children. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the state agency that grants the licenses, has since...
While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordablehousing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then. 2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ ...
The housing sector needs to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants. 2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ The idea that "housing crisis" equals "concreted meadows" is pure lobby talk. 2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ Then there is...
The hukou system, which is China’s household registration system, is not only the method for population registration but also the instrument by which a city government grants access to a variety of exclusive rights—most importantly, the right to enjoy certain public services and welfare. The hu...
Perhaps most impactful, other funders made their grants completely unrestricted, allowing the organization to allocate the funds at its discretion. As one staff member explained, “a lot of our funders have come back [to us] and said, ‘You could pay for this, buy whatever, our funding is ...
Social housing (SH) upgrades involve multiple stakeholders with sometimes divergent requirements and needs. Collaboration and participative processes are essential to ensuring an appropriate value for users is delivered through social housing upgrades. Living Labs are user-centred initiatives where researchers...
Consequently, time compression affects flows of information and financing needed for housing recovery. Different funding sources (e.g., insurance, government relief, grants, private financing, loans) flow and move at different rates on separate time paths, affecting individual household recovery and ...
In Sweden by contrast, this was not a concern as housing adaptations are covered through municipality-financed grants [30]. Such differences across Europe and how they impact possibilities for people to effectuate changes in their housing situation along with functional decline deserve more attention ...