… to create an international portrait of housing in all its facets: from meanings of home at the
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… entry, “Innovation in Housing,” helps to … housing trade as the home building industry. As a
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… houses of this type are usually inhabited by retirees with modest income. Some houses of this
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This paper discusses the changing emphasis in the last few years in the World Housing
Encyclopedia project towards a concentration on tutorials and guidelines on various …

This article introduces the housing paradigm perspective, a relatively new field of housing
theory and comparative housing studies. The housing paradigm perspective identifies …

Suitable for housing professionals, both academics and practitioners for teaching, discovery,
and research needs, this title contains over 500 entries, listed alphabetically, and grouped …

The term domicide was coined by Douglas Porteous and Sandra Smith in 2001 to refer to
the ‘‘deliberate destruction of home by human agency in pursuit of specified goals, which …

Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work offers an in-depth treatment of
all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a …

… incongruities between home and house, without any doubt, the subject of housing – how …
encyclopedia deal with issues related to housing, which allows for a primary focus on “home” …

The Encyclopedia of Homelessness is the first systematic effort to organize and summarize
what we know about this complex topic which impacts not only the homeless but all of society…