Found 3
Categories in Housing Challenges.
Found 104 Resources in Housing Challenges.
Displaying results 81 - 90.
Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became The World's Most Notorious Slum -- by Tyler Anbinder (Author) (Book)
"In the 19th century, the Five Points district in lower Manhattan was New York City's most noxious slum, teeming with wretchedly poor Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants and African...
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
Erik Is Homeless -- by Carol Halebian, Keith Greenberg (Authors) (Book)
"This photo essay describes the plight of nine-year-old Erik and his mother Lydia. After Erik's father was killed in a car accident, the once middle-class family was left destitute. Eventually, they...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement -- by Francis Deng, Roberta Cohen (Authors) (Book)
"This book analyzes the causes and consequences of displacement, including its devastating impact both within and beyond the borders of affected countries. It sets forth strategies for preventing...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods -- by Alexander Von Hoffman (Author) (Book)
"In a series of dramatic and colorful narratives, von Hoffman shows how groups are revitalizing once desparate neighborhoods in five major cities: New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles....
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home -- by Sarah Susanka (Author) (Book)
"This sequel to The Not So Big House builds on the principles laid out in the first book: creation of comfort, rooms tailored to fit a lifestyle, and construction that lasts. By thoughtfully...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
United Alternative Care (Organization - Private, Non-Profit)
This small group home provides quality, residential services for females ages 10-17 years old with significant social/emotional disturbance or mental retardation, including adolescent females who are...
Ages 10 years - 17 years.
Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood -- by David Simon, Edward Burns (Authors) (Book)
"From the Publisher--At the center of the narrative is fifteen-year-old DeAndre McCullough. DeAndre's parents, Gary and Fran, were once poised, against all odds, to pull themselves up and out of west...
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
Homeless Teens -- by Gail Stewart (Author) (Book)
"Stewart allows her subjects to speak for themselves. In Teen Mothers, she also reveals that many teens who become pregnant have suffered from sexual abuse in the past and are part of a cycle of...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced -- by Roberta Cohen, Francis Deng (Authors) (Book)
"The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has become a pervasive feature of the...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Home Is Where We Live: Life at a Shelter through a Young Girl's Eyes -- by Bonnie Groth, Jane Hertenstein (Authors) (Book)
"Photographs with brief text chronicle a seven-month stay at a homeless shelter where a ten-year-old girl felt scared at first but later felt safe."--Publisher (barnesandnoble.com)
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)