This book offers a fresh new approach to the study of housing. It explores the meaning that housing has for individuals and households by examining 'housing pat

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introdu

The dwelling is a central setting in people’s everyday life. People use their dwelling and residential environment for a large variety of activities and purpo

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over