Interim housing isn't just a roof and four walls. Good design is key to getting people out of homelessness
State governments across the country have plans to increase social and affordable housing to address ballooning waitlists.
State governments across the country have plans to increase social and affordable housing to address ballooning waitlists.
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the impacts of air quality on high-rise living. However, apartments face a range of atmospheric challenges. These include air and noise pollution, temperature and weather extremes, bushfire ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2023
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Policymakers and re-entry programs need to prioritize housing to support formerly incarcerated people and reduce recidivism, researchers from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University write in ...
Social Sciences
Sep 8, 2023
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A new study from Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy debunks a common belief about the impact of affordable housing on neighborhood property values. The researchers, led by Assistant Professor Brian Y. An, found that developments ...
Economics & Business
Aug 30, 2023
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New research has shown that when considering how to move Canada's most vulnerable from unhoused to housed, the network of supports available within that housing is critical to its success.
Social Sciences
Jun 1, 2023
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When a powerful storm flooded neighborhoods in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in April with what preliminary reports show was 25 inches of rain in 24 hours, few people were prepared. Even hurricanes rarely drop that much rain ...
Environment
Apr 27, 2023
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Canada is experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Over the past 20 years, housing prices have increased at double the rate of income growth. Partly fueled by dramatic interest hikes, rental prices have also risen precipitously ...
Social Sciences
Mar 27, 2023
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Researchers focus a lot of attention on how disasters such as hurricanes and floods affect people's housing in the United States.
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2023
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It's easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it's now inevitable that societies will either transform themselves or be transformed. But as two of the ...
Environment
Mar 21, 2023
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A Cornell-led study is the first to report national, annual rates of sheltered homelessness over time across race and ethnicity, and finds "staggering" disparities, showing Black and Indigenous Americans are far more likely ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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