Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Subject "Housing"
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Can Sustainable Housing Development Play A Substantial Role in Mitigating Poverty: A Case Study of the Ten 50 B Project
First, this paper will focus on the environmental and housing challenges faced by those who live in poverty. Included in the discussion are challenges that are faced disproportionately by the poor and the effect on their ... -
Community Collaboration
The purposes of this community-based research project is to evaluate needs of low-income residents of Lexington not met by the local community and to unveil opportunities that exist for further community collaboration ... -
Cracking Down on the Down and Out: The Criminalization of Homelessness
The legislation that this paper examines bars them [homeless persons] from fulfilling basic needs. This paper considers what sorts of legislation criminalizes homelessness, discusses the moral and legal implications of ... -
High Infant Mortality Rates among the Poor in America: The Roles of Income and Other Social Factors
Many causes of infant mortalities, both neonatal and postnatal, are due to unpreventable congenital malformations. The other causes are largely preventable. Prenatal care, adequate maternal nutrition, and abstinence from ... -
Rockbridge Area Housing Study: An Assessment of Rental Housing Needs In Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge County, Virginia
This study focuses exclusively on renter households. Several important features of the local market contributed to the narrowing of this focus. First, there are already a number of programs within the Rockbridge Area that ... -
Stuck on the Streets, But in Hope of a Home: The Long-Term Homeless
One of the most extreme forms of modern-day poverty in the United States, homelessness has been steadily increasing in urban prevalence since the 1970's.1 Although many people admit that homelessness is a problem in many ...