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Marzahn is not unlike that, Hawkins explains: “our particular corner of Marzahn does seem to be the dumping ground, for the desperate, for the people who have nowhere else to go, and the housing association seemed pretty keen to put us in this area.” He and his wife didn’t question ...
"With social housing, we can rent an apartment with low rentals. After a period of time, we can buy it on installments. It is any port in a storm," Tri said, pointing to his 74-year-old mother and adding that she has had to live in the makeshift house since 1975. Like Tri, ma...
This dataset is particularly valuable due to the limited availability of official housing price data suitable for empirical research in China, and it provides important insights into the socioeconomic status of residents. Additionally, land transfer data, including attributes such as latitude, longitude,...
Egalitarianism and Community in Danish housing cooperatives: Proper forms of sharing and being together Social Analysis, 55 (2) (2011), pp. 62-83 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Buch, 2015 E.D. Buch Postponing passage: Doorways, distinctions, and the thresholds of personhood among older Chicagoans...
The night of the shooting, Dalia Karim locked the doors of her family’s 7-Eleven for the first time in 17 years. “We never close,” she told me. As owners of one of the few businesses in Lewiston, Maine, that remains open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Karims built...
Daphné insists on “raising one problem at a time”, in this case “health”, but also “basic knowledge” (Mrs. Wang has difficulty reading and writing in French) and “housing” (she fell behind on rent during the divorce). When Mrs. Wang returns to her back problems, Daphné gently...
which uses indicators from housing affordability to work-life balance to air pollution. So yeah, maybe some better ways of measuring things. Happiness is a pretty great one. Although UK, 20th, it's pretty rubbish. Anyway, that's all we got time for for today's...
Social support is a well-known protective factor against depressive symptoms and substance use problems, but very few studies have examined its protective effects among residents of permanent supportive housing (PSH), a housing program for people with a history of chronic homelessness. We utilized un...
Near the beginning of my fieldwork, I met with Awa, a Somali-Dutch woman based in London whose astute comments opened my eyes more than once and challenged me to think harder. We were discussing my research questions when she contested my initial assumption that she might be a "mobile ...