by a community-based organisation that is located in a public housing estate. You have been working with the following family for a number of months. Julie has four children‚ aged 2-10 years old‚ and lives in a public housing estate in ‘Springvale’. You became involved with Julie’s family when she moved to the estate‚ having left Bill‚ the father of her children‚ due to experiencing domestic violence. Julie was granted public housing due to her single parent status‚ and she is receiving Parenting
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English 1301 February 17‚ 2012 English and American Life I was born in England in 1970 and lived there until I was 10 years old. In 1980‚ my mother and I immigrated to the United States. I spent the rest of my childhood in Miami‚ moved around the country for a while‚ and settled in Houston when I was 20. All of my family still resides in England‚ except for my mother and me. Although we have lived here for over 30 years‚ we both still retain our English citizenship. While there are vast similarities
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the scheme well. The prospect of achieving a zero population growth within a decade is very promising. This will solve the pressing of public housing in our limited land area. The planning authorities will then be able to convert the surplus land into schools‚ swimming pools and pockets of green parks. With more land to spare‚ residents in public housing estates will feel encouraged to start their own little patches of gardens in front of their flats. This will certainly prevent Singapore from rapidly
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out for help. They are afraid that people will look down on them and put them into mental institutions. “The Housing First (HF) approach for homeless adults with serious mental illness has gained support as an alternative to the mainstream “Treatment First” (TF) approach.” (Padgett‚ Stanhope‚ Henwood & Stefancic‚ 2009) The difference between Treatment First and Housing First is that Housing First focuses on a stable place for the person/people to stay before focusing on the drug problems that the
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What to ask your agent before buying property By Tessa R. Salazar Philippine Daily Inquirer 11:30 pm | Friday‚ September 14th‚ 2012 In 2009‚ an estimated 85 percent of cases being filed with the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board legal office involved refunds of installment payments on real estate properties. The refunds of installment payments included subdivision and condominium developments in Metro Manila. What may have become an all-too-familiar scenario in the HLURB halls have been complainants
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Throughout the world homelessness is a well-known word‚ but do you fully understand the topic? Homelessness is a real-life issue in the world around us. The term is referred to the condition of a person or persons who do not have a permanent home to come to every day as well as every night. Homeless people are not just adults. Homelessness is everywhere. It is in big cities‚ even small cities such as Reidsville‚ North Carolina. When comparing the whole United States compared to North Carolina‚ there
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Homeless Ask any homeless person why they are living on the street‚ and one theme will inevitably emerge: they were unable to navigate the maze of programs and procedures intended to help. In addition to information about every short- and long-term housing program available in the city‚ Project Homeless Connect provided clothing‚ shoes‚ free phone calls‚ counselling‚ medical treatment‚ dental care‚ eye exams and glasses‚ benefits information‚ government identification cards‚ and more. There was live
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Policy Analysis on Industrial Building Revitalization 1. Background In the past few decades‚ Hong Kong has undergone economic transformation from secondary industry to tertiary service. Due to the northern movement of the manufacturers and industrialists for the relocation of production activities‚ the demand of industrial buildings has declined. The surplus factory buildings have become unoccupied and so their market values have remained low when compared with other property sectors. With
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includes and excludes different codes of behaviour by rehearsing dominant collective identities. • Individuals often enact the different social or cultural performances they see in the media. • Certain geographical locations – near a beach or a public housing estate – help build dominant place identities. (Text‚ page 99-100) d.rogers@uws.edu.au 2 27/08/12 CHALLENGING DOMINANT IDEAS AND CONSTRUCTED IDENTITIES • Performances of identities in a public space that are deemed ‘incorrect’
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Williams & C Dair (2007). What Is Stopping Sustainable Building in England? Barriers Experienced by Stakeholders in Delivering Sustainable Developments. Sustainable Development Sust. Dev. 15‚ 135–147 • Yingxin Zhu‚ Borong Lin (2003). Sustainable housing and urban construction in China. Energy and Buildings 36 (2004) 1287–1297
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