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The Right To Housing: An Effective Means For Addressing Homelessness?, Thomas Byrne, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

A number of international human rights instruments and national constitutions establish a right to housing. In addition, a few countries, most notably England and France, have enacted legislation guaranteeing a legally enforceable right to housing. In this paper we provide an overview of the concept of a “right to housing,” and discuss its implications for efforts intended to reduce and end homelessness both in the European and American contexts.

Prevalence And Risk Of Homelessness Among Us Veterans: A Multisite Investigation, Jamison Fargo, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Harlan Jones, George Sheldon, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

This study analyzes HMIS and American Community Survey data from seven jurisdictions to assess the prevalence and relative risk for homelessness among veterans by race, sex, age and poverty status. Results show that among the homeless population, approximately 14% of adult males and 2% of adult females are veterans. For males, this proportion is about 30% greater than the proportion of Veterans in the general population, and twice as large as the proportion of veterans in the population living below the poverty threshold. Similarly among the female homeless population, veterans are overrepresented compared to the general population by a factor …

The Impact Of Shelter Use And Housing Placement On Mortality Hazard For Unaccompanied Adults And Adults In Family Households Entering New York City Shelters: 1990-2002, Stephen Metraux, Nicholas Eng, Jay Bainbridge, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

This study examines mortality among New York City (NYC) homeless shelter users, assessing the relationships between mortality hazard and time in shelter, patterns of homelessness, and subsequent housing exits for both adults in families and single adults. Administrative records from the NYC shelter system were matched with death records from the Social Security Administration for 160,525 persons. Crude mortality rates and life tables were calculated, and survival analyses were undertaken using these data. Life expectancy was 64.2 and 68.6 years for single adult males and single adult females, respectively, and among adults in families, life expectancy was 67.2 and 70.1 …

Managing Stormwater Runoff With Green Infrastructure: Exploring Practical Strategies To Overcome Barriers In Citywide Implementation, Shaojing Tian

Community and Regional Planning Program: Theses and Student Projects

Cities in the United States are facing the challenges of protecting water resources, drinking water and public health with a rapid pace of population growth and urban sprawl. Large quantities of stormwater runoff arising from increased imperviousness on urbanizing watershed will cause municipal sewer system overflow and discharge of untreated runoff into waterways, and as a result, pollute local water bodies and affect the quality of drinking water in the long run. It has been increasingly acknowledged that Green Infrastructure (GI) and Low Impact Development (LID) can be used as an effective tool to capture and retain stormwater on site …

Wku-Habitat For Humanity Green Community: A Model For Engagement And Partnerships, Nancy Givens, Rodney Goodman

Education for Sustainability Summer Institute

No abstract provided.

Los Diez Criminales Más Buscados, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Con la finalidad de reducir los delitos en el viejo oeste, se tenía la política de identificación de los delincuentes más avezados para someterles al escrutinio público, a la persecución y a la pena correspondiente, mediante la colocación de carteles en los bares, cantinas y postes más visibles del pueblo; de esta marera, se esperaba que la ciudadanía los denuncie para someterles a las penas correspondientes. El caso más interesante fue Jesse James – que comandaba una banda de asaltantes de bancos y trenes- quien utilizó la treta de su propia muerte para sortear la medida penal, para ello utilizó …

Ecuador: De Isla De Paz A Plataforma Internacional Del Delito, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Exposición desarrollada en el marco de la Reunión Mensual de Quantum, Quito, julio 2011

Urban Climate And Challenges Of Tropical Cities, B E. Omogbai

Confluence Journal Environmental Studies (CJES), Kogi State University, Nigeria

This study examines the nature of urban climate, features and the challenges on the developing tropical cities in the 21st century. It argues that the use of principles of urban climate would help in providing comfortable living conditions and problem immune working environments for the inhabitants of tropical cities. The findings reveal that owing to poor environmental planning, inadequate geotechnical landscape surveys prior to the development of urban infrastructures, and non-adherence to the principles of urban climate, challenges of landscape degradation, excessive flooding of the built infrastructures, heat-island effects, and collapse of buildings have emerged. Suggested measures to avert these …

Politização Jurídica Da Exclusividade Estatal No Serviço Postal Brasileiro, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

Detecting Changes In Landuse/Cover Of Umuahia, South-Eastern Nigeria Using Remote Sensing And Gis Techniques, Fanan Ujoh, Olarewaju Oluseyi Ifatimehin, Adams Ndalai Baba

Confluence Journal Environmental Studies (CJES), Kogi State University, Nigeria

Since 1991 when it became the capital city of Abia State, Umuahia has undergone tremendous transformation in its land use and land cover due to rapid urbanization. The main materials employed for this study are a land use map (1991) and Landsat ETM+satellite image (2007) of the study area. These, combined with field survey/checks, were brought into a GIS environment using ILWIS 3.2 Academic image classification software to map the land use/land cover and to estimate the rate of urban expansion and loss of rural land at the peri-urban fringes of Umuahia between 1991 and 2007. The study revealed significant …

River Plate: Un Equipo De Segunda Categoría, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

El 26 de junio pasado ocurrió un hecho histórico en el fútbol de Argentina: luego de los partidos de promoción entre River Plate y Belgrano, se produjo lo que nadie pensaba podría ocurrir: el primero descendió de categoría; con lo cual se iniciaron muchos hechos inesperados y un debate generalizado en América latina sobre la violencia de los estadios, el carácter de las dirigencias, el funcionamiento de las instituciones, la evolución de las hinchadas y el manejo económico de este deporte, entre otros.

¿Cómo es posible que Grondona, presidente de AFA, esté durante 34 años en el ejercicio de esas …

Town Of Lakeside, Mixed-Use Development And Town Hall Feasibility Study, Institute Of Urban Studies

Institute of Urban Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Future Of The Library? Turning Conflicting Pressures Into Compelling Opportunities, Ludmilla D. Pavlova-Gillham, Jay Schafer, Shirley Dugdale

Ludmilla D Pavlova

Many institutions are scrutinizing library space as a potential space bank in times of tight capital resources, while librarians are seeking ways to shift lesser-used collections into storage, create more user space, and improve services. Accomplishing these tasks at University of Massachusetts Amherst's Du Bois Library, a 26-story tower, posed a particular challenge. The library's master plan needed to explore compatible uses, partners for integrated services, and identify opportunities to repurpose space for university needs as well as the library's future vision. Learning Outcomes: 1.Recognize functions compatible with future libraries and their mission. 2.Identify forces prompting change in research libraries …

Cuarenta Años De Guerra A Las Drogas, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

El 17 de junio de 1971 Richard Nixon presidente de los Estados Unidos, declaró la guerra a las drogas con una duración prevista para cinco años y con un presupuesto de 100 millones de dólares. En su discurso de presentación de la política el presidente dijo: “El enemigo público número uno de Estados Unidos es el abuso de drogas. Para poder luchar y derrotar este enemigo es necesario llevar a cabo una ofensiva nueva y plena. Ésta será una ofensiva a escala mundial abordando los problemas con las fuentes de oferta, como también con estadounidenses desplegados en el extranjero, donde …

Broadacre City (1935-1958) Is A Work Of Art. Cubist Utopia, Perhaps?, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City project is often treated as an unsuccessful urban plan. It is also interesting in itself as a work of art that Wright and some of his students in the Fellowship returned to periodically over more than two decades. There is also a latent third sector (or "commons") of suggested organizations and institutions hidden in the details of the plan.

El Fantasma Que Deteriora La Democracia: La (In)Seguridad, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Un fantasma recorre Latinoamérica, en tanto imagen de personas muertas que, según dicen, se les aparece permanentemente a los vivos; sea como percepción o como realidad: las tasas de homicidio en veinte y cinco años se duplicaron: de 12 homicidios por cien mil habitantes en 1980 a 25.1 en el año 2006; lo cual significa un número no menor de 170 mil homicidios por año. Existe un aumento de homicidios y de las demandas por seguridad: en el año 2000 se ubicaron en el cuarto lugar, en el año 2005 pasaron al segundo puesto y desde 2008 están posicionadas como …

The 2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report To Congress, Alvaro Cortes, Josh Leopold, Louise Rothschild, Larry Buron, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane

Dennis P. Culhane

The 2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) represents the sixth in a series of reports on homelessness in the U.S. It responds to a congressional directive that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provide an annual report to Congress on the extent and nature of homelessness. As in past years, the AHAR provides the results of local counts of people homeless on a single night in January, as well as estimates of the number, characteristics, and service patterns of all people who used residential programs for homeless people during the 2010 federal Fiscal Year (October 2009-September 2010). Also, …

La Consulta Popular Y El Distrito Metropolitano, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

La nueva Constitución del Ecuador -elaborada en Montecristi y aprobada mediante plebiscito en el año 2008- estableció el camino que se debía seguir para la aprobación de los Distritos Metropolitanos Autónomos en el país. Primero, señaló que para asumir esa condición se debería contar con al menos un 7 por ciento de la población nacional; segundo, que sus competencias serían la suma de las atribuciones regionales, provinciales y cantonales; y tercero, que para llegar a esta condición se debía contar con una Ley y un Estatuto de autonomía por cada jurisdicción. El Estatuto de Autonomía es la carta de nacimiento …

Open Space Planning; Utilizing Green Infrastructure To Preserve Community, Cynthia V. Reynolds

Master's Theses

Current sprawl development patterns typical of contemporary development in the United States are unsustainable. The uniform development guidelines prevent context sensitive community design, degrading our communities and consuming large amounts of natural and cultural resources. Significant progress has been made in reorganizing community planning towards sustainable development practices. However, these alternatives still work under the misconception that there is a disconnect between planning open space networks and planning development. Through a comprehensive land use planning approach, this project explores combining concepts of landscape ecology, green infrastructure planning and conservation subdivision patterns to design an integrative open space/community network.

Gender Participation In The Management Of Tricycle Transport For Youth Empowerment And Sustainable Development In Kano State, Nigeria, Nuratu Muhammed

Confluence Journal Environmental Studies (CJES), Kogi State University, Nigeria

The research examined gender participation in the management of tricycle for youth empowerment and sustainable development in Kano state, Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select samples of drivers(150), passengers (150) and owners/managers the female tricycle owners fell under this category and they numbered(65).All together a total of 365 samples were selected for the study. Data obtained from the primary data was analyzed using simple statistical techniques and chi square test to ascertain whether there was any significant differences in some of the variables tested. The results of the analysis revealed that the main difference was found in …