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Category : Home ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The State of the Nation's Housing
Author: The State of Our Nation's Housing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The State of the Nation's Housing Market
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The State of the Nation
Author: Derek Curtis BokPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674292116
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The author shows that although Americans are better off today in most areas than they were in 1960, they have performed poorly compared with other leading industrial nations.
Our Nation's Housing. Message from the President of the United States Relative to Our Nation's Housing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Our Nation's Housing
Author: United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy)Publisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The State of the Nations's Housing
Author: William C. ApgarHomelessness Is a Housing Problem
Author: Gregg ColburnPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
State of the Nation's Housing
Author: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Building State Capability
Author: Matt AndrewsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198747489
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.