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    Homelessness affects men, women, families, children, youth, and veterans. While structural factors, like the unequal distribution of income and lack of affordable housing, cause homelessness, certain vulnerabilities may determine who is at higher risk for homelessness. These include addictions, mental illness, domestic violence, medical conditions, and lack of education or job skills. This research paper will shed some light on the issue of homelessness and how we can prevents it with some suggested

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    Saanich Case Study

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    centres, numerous beaches and amenities that a beautiful municipality needs. As beautiful the Saanich can be, people of all age in this community are facing housing affordability issue. We can study this issue by examining the history of Saanich and its local government statistics. However, to address the problem in Saanich by building multifamily housing, and involvement of various organization, and other level of government in municipal, provincial and federal level. When looking at the history of Saanich

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    are providing food and housing. Will I be able to eat

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    Homeless People Policy

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    circumstances can be judged by what the population is due to the fact, that everyone has a story to tell based on one's past experience of financial hardship. Therefore, the homeless people need to be considered by; governmental funding, policies, and housing first. Governmental funding is an excellent source to help out those individuals going through a difficult time. In fact, the

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    Introduction A housing policy can be thought of as the efforts put in by a given government to transform a housing market(s) for the purposes of achieving social objectives. In most cases, a housing policy is meant to ensure that the general population has access to a home that is affordable. For instance, the British Conservative/Liberal Democratic coalition’s housing policy is aimed at increasing the number of affordable housing units; fostering homeownership; making social housing flexible; tackling

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    Over the years, the city of Syracuse has created and implemented a plan to revitalize the neighborhood of the Near West Side. This plan is known as the Near West Side Initiative. Along with Syracuse University and other public and private entities, the city’s aim is to combine new innovations with the community values and diverse culture within the neighborhood through home renovations, the conversion of abandoned spaces, and crime prevention (Neighborhoods Matter). The quality of neighborhood environments

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    tenure in the overall UK housing market. Approximately, 4.9 million households in the UK are in the PRS, which has more than doubled since 2001 (Paragon 2015). 3.2 ROLE OF THE PRIVATE RENTED SECTOR (PRS) PRS can be defined as any property that is privately owned and being rented out as housing, usually by an individual landlord, but potentially by larger commercial property organizations. For the purpose of this dissertation, one of the biggest sectors of privately rented housing, owned by large companies

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    surrounding it. Although, the benefits of

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    place where Social Darwinism is vastly accepted, leaving several people that are homeless with limited resources. “In January 2013, 610,042 people were homeless on a given night. Most (65 percent) were living in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs and 35 percent were living in unsheltered locations “(Cortes, Morris, & Henry, 2013, p.1). While this is a decrease from last year in which there were, “633,782 people

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    Affordable Housing in the Context of China 1 Introduction In recent decades, the rapid urbanisation in China has led to the fast economic growth alone with many social issues, especially housing problem. The Chinese government tried to build public housing to ease this situation. However, the lack of incentives and benefits in local government often obstruct the public housing projects from implementing. Thus, the increasing urbanisation, with most jobs concentrated in large cities, made the housing issue

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