Author: American Bar Association. Special Committee on Housing and Urban Development LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Executive Summary, Housing Justice in the United States
Author: American Bar Association. Special Committee on Housing and Urban Development LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Executive Summary : Housing Justice in the United States
Author: Housing and Planning References
Author: "Housing Justice in Small Claims Courts"
Author: John C. RuhnkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Compendium of Research Reports
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Executive Summary, Specialized Courts
Author: Randall W. ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing courts
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Housing and Urban Development Research Reports
Author: Sacrifice Zones
Author: Steve LernerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262288745
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns. Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say “Enough is enough.” After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action—organizing, speaking up, documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods. In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods “sacrifice zones.” And he argues that residents of these sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants, need additional regulatory protections. Sacrifice Zones goes beyond the disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents themselves, offering compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice and details the successful tactics they have used on the fenceline with heavy industry.
Latinos in American Society
Author: Ruth Enid ZambranaPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801461529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education affect the well-being of families and individuals. By mapping out how these factors result in economic, social, and political disadvantage, Zambrana challenges the widespread negative perceptions of Latinos in America and the single story of Latinos in the United States as a monolithic group. Synthesizing an increasingly substantial body of social science research—much of it emerging from the interdisciplinary fields of Chicano studies, U.S. Latino studies, critical race studies, and family studies—the author adopts an intersectional "social inequality lens" as a means for understanding the broader sociopolitical dynamics of the Latino family, considering ethnic subgroup diversity, community context, institutional practices, and their intersections with family processes and well-being. Zambrana, a leading expert on Latino populations in America, demonstrates the value of this approach for capturing the contemporary complexity of and transitions within diverse U.S. Latino families and communities. This book offers the most up-to-date portrait we have of Latinos in America today.