Transportation costs are typically a household's second largest expense after housing. Low income households are especially burdened by transportation costs, with low income households spending up to two times as much of their income on transportation than higher income households (Litman, 2013).Thus,...
coordinated care and improved access to health and social services.Cedar Sinai Park鈥攁 nonprofit residential care organization located in Portland, Oregon鈥攚ill implement a demonstration project attempting to connect low-income adults living in affordable and public housing with health and social ...
Housing is responsible for 22 % of the industry's energy demand and 17 % of the related CO2eq emissions. In Europe, an estimated 97 % of the building stock is not efficient enough to comply with the Paris Agreement. To limit carbon emissions, Europe is leading the way in terms of ...
Central London @ Great Portland Street tube (Map here) See the conference programme here For a decade or more, the Government has beendeploying psychotherapyto get people with mental health difficulties off benefits, back to work and mapped into the neoliberal labour market. Since 2010,austerity ...
Through a case study of a community orchard in an affordable housing neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, we examine how the involvement of an outside nonprofit organization can transform the very notion—and composition—of community. We illustrate how the internal structures and day-to-day practices...
for enrolling in college full-time and maintaining a minimum GPA in colleges. Grantees such as YouthBuild and the National Employment Youth Coalition will work in San Francisco, Portland, Philadelphia, Columbus, and other U.S. cities to help low-income young adults get on a pathway to ...
aHowever, microfinance is defined as the provision of financial services to low-income clients, including consumers and the self- employed, who traditionally lack access to banking and related services (Gonzalez-Vega, 2008). Microfinance is a place for the poor and near poor clients to get ...
Deep-rooted racial residential segregation and housing discrimination have given rise to housing disparities among low-income Black young adults in the US. Most studies have focused on single dimensions of housing instability, and thus provide a partial view of how Black young adults experience multipl...
Article Accessory Dwelling Units as Low-Income Housing: California's Faustian Bargain Darrel Ramsey-Musolf Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, UMass Amherst, MA 01003, USA; darrel@larp.umass.edu; Tel.: +1-413-545-6619 Received: 16 July 2018; Accepted: 5 September 2018; ...
The purpose of this paper is to assess the household dietary diversity among low-income families, with and without a child with a disability, living in three low-resource compounds (one is divided into two regions) in Lusaka, Zambia. See Figure 1. Data were collected as part of an ongoing...