Social service providers, not for profit housing providers and local councils are now reflecting on how they will fit into this new landscape. Amid the anticipated increase in community based social housing providers, the question of what contribution social enterprise might bring to this new dynamic...
The Imminent Ruin of the Auckland Housing Crisis: Social Resistance against the Financialisation of HousingIntroductionThere is a housing crisis in New Zealand for people on low incomes. The 2013 census...Malva, ShaneSociological Association of Aotearoa New ZealandNew Zealand Sociology...
At the 2013 Census, Auckland’s median age was 35 years, compared with a national median age of nearly 40. However, Auckland’s population is expected to age considerably in future decades, following national trends (Statistics New Zealand, 2017d). As Auckland’s population has aged, the ...
It is a testament to the excellence and resilience of the providers that they were able to complete the programme despite the challenges created by the pandemic. Finally, the study was non-blinded, clustered, and open to contamination (i.e., participants sharing with others). These are ...
Maria Armoudianis the author of two books,Reporting from the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs and an Increasingly Perilous FutureandKill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World.She is a lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the host and produc...
of the collective action campaigns and looking forward to creating new opportunities for collaboration and co-ordination by defining five new themes for the next webinar series. The online conferences will be supported by local face-to-face conferences in Philadelphia, London, Auckland and Strasbourg....
Footnote 1 Temporary population mobility can exert substantive impacts on both the size and composition of populations at the small-area level (Charles-Edwards and Panczak, 2018) impacting traffic, housing, retail sales, medical services and emergency preparedness to name a select few (Smith, 1989;...
(Eurocities2009). In the United States, housing and the homelessness crisis has worsened over the past 2 years. By some estimates, more than 311,000 tenants nationwide have been evicted from homes the year preceding the crisis. As more people fall into homelessness, local service providers ...
I offer to buy products that are less harmful to the environment—their production does not require a large energy input (e.g., at work, at the child’s school/preschool, at the cooperative, at the housing association). In both cases, information obtained from observations of the aforementio...
Environmental and social problems, such as overcrowded housing, deteriorating living conditions, and ecological damage, are prominent due to the aging population and rapid social changes [2]. This can adversely affect the mental health of older adults [3]. Older adults are prone to depression, ...