769 Search Results for Affordable Housing
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How many people are homeless?
The number of homeless is difficult to ascertain because estimates vary depending on the methodology used. Numbers also vary substantially depending on whether a measurement is taken on a single night or is extrapola Continue Reading...
A secondary mortgage market permits mortgage originators to be more responsive to dynamic mortgage demand and to lower mortgage rates for some homeowners when mortgage demand is higher. According to Koppell (2001):
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causes of homelessness among women. While there are many factors, structural and individual, which contribute to homelessness, poverty more than any other, single risk factor is responsible for women being homeless.
Homelessness has become a social Continue Reading...
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Mental Issue 2226
Mental Health
Researches indicate that poverty and mental illness are correlated with each other in a broader spectrum. This research paper is commissioned on the basis of two exhaustively researched hypotheses: H1 P Continue Reading...
2). Some of the programs offered by the city include those set forth in Table 5 below.
Table 5
City-Sponsored Community Resources for the Homeless in Las Vegas
Community Resource
Description
Housing and Homeless Services
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Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Gentrification on Rent Prices:
This essay will explore how gentrification, the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste, affects the rent prices in urb Continue Reading...
Furthermore, the Home Depot employs many community members providing them with a livelihood enabling them to earn a living. Additionally, the special activities of the Home Depot in the community in which they are located results in benefits realize Continue Reading...
Competitor products and their equivalent prizes, this is so that after establishing our break-even analysis it can act as a guiding line to set the best price. (Tao 2008)
The survey should enable one establish the best marketing strategies and anti Continue Reading...
Philippines Real Estate
Over the last several years, the Philippine Islands has been going through a major transformation. Part of the reason for this, is because the country has become an area of focus for many firms that are looking to outsource j Continue Reading...
Homelessness in America
When discussing the United States' current economic crisis, comparisons with the Great Depression are becoming more common. Tent cities or makeshift shelters in specified areas or just beyond city limits are becoming familia Continue Reading...
Based on the report submitted by Cuomo, upon receiving assistance from authorized agencies, such as health care assistance, treatment from substance and drug abuse, education and job training and even services for mental health problems, a big part Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. Economic Factors Influencing Rent Prices:
Explore how economic indicators like employment rates, inflation, and GDP growth impact rent prices in urban and suburban areas.
2. The Impact of Urban Develo Continue Reading...
Problems in Local Government: Ending Veteran Homelessness in Tulsa, OklahomaOnce widely known as the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa is still a cosmopolitan city that is famous for its historic art deco that eschews the cow town image that characteri Continue Reading...
Economic Inequalities: Deep-ceded Problems in America
New York is a city that is synonymous with America to many people and societies around the world. New York city is a land of freedom and opportunity, symbolized by Lady Liberty in New York harbor Continue Reading...
Family Violence Prevention Services Act
Social policy analysis must start with defining the problem that the policy is designed to address. For instance, Family Violence Prevention Services Act addresses the subject of family violence, domestic viol Continue Reading...
This is exacerbated by the "...growing gap between wage earnings and the cost of housing in the United States which leaves millions of families and individuals unable to make ends meet." (Homelessness in the United States) Low Incomes and minimum wa Continue Reading...
The Problems of People with Mental Illness in Dallas, TexasDallas has the leading poverty rate that places most people living in abject poverty at the risk of developing mental health illnesses and makes it challenging for those living with mental il Continue Reading...
SOCIOLOGY - HOW WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE EXPERIENCE BOTH STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL BARRIERS TO UPWARD MOBILITY.
The American Dream is a popular cultural fiction that drives many Americans to work hard and persistently for upward mobility. Unfortunately, s Continue Reading...
Rewarding Work: How to Restore Participating and Self-Support to Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 197), economist Edmund Phelps offers this plan to help the working poor: apply tax credits for "qualified employers" or hire disadvantaged pe Continue Reading...
Poverty is only one of the social issues addressed by the Salvation Army, which also tackles broader-scale social issues. For example, the Salvation Army helps people cope with addictions. In addition, it assists people who are victims of family vi Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Influence of Zoning Regulations on Urban Sprawl:
This topic would explore how zoning laws contribute to urban sprawl by dictating land use and how compaction strategies can be used to encourage mor Continue Reading...
families are living in poverty. Many of these families are living in such extreme conditions that they cannot afford even such basic needs as food for every meal. Living and growing up in such conditions affects every area of life and ultimately the Continue Reading...
Balfour Beatty UK
The multinational infrastructure PPP firm
The rise of the public-private partnership (PPP) during the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 is most representative of market activities in the infrastructure investment sector Continue Reading...
Social Issue: Burgeoning Homelessness
A prevalent and ever-growing social issue in my community is the problem of homelessness. According to the federal government’s annual report on homelessness, the number of homeless people in America has r Continue Reading...
Policy Study
Seattle has been a leader in the United States in trying to eradicate the homeless problems that arise in every city. Since the 1970's, the citizens of the city have agreed to tax increases (more than four times (Farestart, 2009) to add Continue Reading...
The government in Canada did make attempts, in the fashion of 'too little, too late' to "contain the rapid growth of homelessness with homeless shelters and other short-term crisis-based services." (Laird, 2007; p.,6) This is a failed strategy accor Continue Reading...
Executive Summary
Myrtle Beach is a seaside resort community. It is a destination city and provides tourism services year-round. It has grown exponentially in recent years and is among the top growing cities in the country. It is in need of economic Continue Reading...
This is when the available supply will address demand.
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et al. (2005) Facts on Trauma and Homeless Children. National Child Traumatic Stress Network - Homelessness and Extreme Poverty Working Group. Online available at http://www.nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/promising_practices/Facts_on_Trauma_and_Homel Continue Reading...
Just like pornography, everyone seems to know \"gentrification\" when they see it. See a Starbucks or Whole Foods move into a neighborhood? That's gentrification. Find out that a house sold for an exorbitant amount or that rents at some building Continue Reading...
Homelessness in America
Homelessness is one of the major issues in the United States given its significant social and economic impacts. As a result, homelessness has been the subject of epidemiological studies, public debates, and policy initiatives. Continue Reading...
(Managing Results: Initiatives in Select American Cities, 1995, p.1) When asked as to what types of performance measures actually exist, Mr. Waldrop summarized the performance measures according to the type of measure, a description of the measures Continue Reading...
Poverty is defined as having a meager annual income, insufficient for meeting basic expenditure. Research has confirmed that older adults, from the age of 65 years and above, when poor, confront immense burden in meeting with their basic housing, foo Continue Reading...
Homelessness in America - Essay Outline
Homelesssness in America
I. Introduction
a. Definition of Homelessness
i. Homelessness is the lack of a stable, safe and permanent housing due to lack of income, poor housing policies, and neighborhood gentrifi Continue Reading...
Evidence-based nursing interventions that will provide quality care to vulnerable populations
There is evidence in innovative health programs whose outcomes are Hospice care with increased patient and caregiver satisfaction costs lower than the conv Continue Reading...
Homelessness
Hearing the story about the 90-year-old being arrested in Fort Lauderdale for feeding the homeless had me thinking that South Florida, with its warm weather, probably has a significant homeless issue. So I decided to look at the homeles Continue Reading...