People, Demography and Social Exclusion
People, Demography and Social Exclusion

Author: Dragana Avramov

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9789287150950

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This report examines the demographic factors likely to have an impact on social exclusion and poverty, including the patterns of young adults leaving the parental home; family household dynamics; cohabitation and separation; reproductive behaviour, and morbidity. It is based on the international study into the complex relationship between demography and social exclusion. Issues considered include: concepts, data and methodology; social disadvantage and the elderly, one-person and one-parent households; and groups most at risk, such as children in poverty, immigrants experiencing deprivation, and the homeless.

Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing
Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing

Author: Stuart Meck

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781884829840

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Do regional approaches to affordable housing actually result in housing production and, if so, how? Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing answers these critical questions and more. Evaluating 23 programs across the nation, the report begins by tracing the history of regional housing planning in the U.S. and defining contemporary big picture issues on housing affordability. It examines fair-share regional housing planning in three states and one metropolitan area, and follows with an appraisal of regional housing trust funds--a new phenomenon. Also assessed are an incentive program in the Twin Cities region and affordable housing appeals statutes in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The study looks at recent private-sector initiatives to promote affordable housing production in the San Francisco Bay area and Chicago. A concluding chapter proposes a set of best and second-best practices. Supplementing the report are appendices containing an extensive annotated bibliography, a research note on housing need forecasting and fair-share allocation formulas, a complete list of state enabling legislation authorizing local housing planning, and two model state acts.

Measuring Progress
Measuring Progress

Author: Richard Eckersley

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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Are we happer, freer, healthier, wealthier, safer, more comforatble, more interesting? How we answer these questions depends on how we define and measure 'a better life'. How and what we measure to show if life is improving is what this book explores. Measuring Progress is the most wide-ranging exploration of lifestyle improvement yet undertaken. It considers social, economic and environmental perspectives. Twenty-three of Australia's leading researchers have contributed chapters on indicators of national performance and what they tell us about the quality and sustainability of life in Australia. The contributors consider how these measures can be improved. The book includes additional commentaries from nine senior bureaucrats, academics and community representatives. Tipics covered include: new measures of progress, the use and abuse of GDP, the causes of correlates of happiness, what 'Middle Australia' thinks about the changes reshaping their lives, income distribution and poverty changes in the workplace and the family, health and well-being, measuring civic and social trust, the state of the environment. Measuring Progress is a major contribution to a debate that could alter ra

Creative Nation
Creative Nation

Author:

Publisher: Department of Communications and Arts

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780642221261

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Australias national cultural policy; includes policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts, broadcasting and cultural heritage; Gallery of Aboriginal Australia; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.