Serving the Urban Poor
Serving the Urban Poor

Author: David Fanshel

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1992-08-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0275940756

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The urban poor suffer many problems beyond pressing financial concerns, including those involving housing, health, and family relationships. Social welfare agencies struggle to cope with the enormity of need presented by individuals and families. The providers frequently lack a framework to guide their priorities and the delivery of services. This volume, based on the authors' close and extensive collaboration with New York's Lower East Family Union, affords a substantive, insightful, and effective approach not only to defining the services needed but also to the delivery thereof. It also examines the cognitive and emotional states which the clients bring as they seek help. Means are provided for establishing priority of needs, assessing the value of preventive services, and formulating family-specific service responses. Potential family dissolution and implicit child welfare concerns are viewed as especially critical and receives extensive constructive discussion. Stressed, poverty-level families often approach helping agencies in a nearly exhausted condition. The needs of such clients can only be answered, and the last straw avoided, if the agencies are structured to identify the most immediate needs and to supply the understanding, supportive relationship, and the requisite practical assistance. This book, with its extensive base of experience, guides the process wisely. It offers informed hope that the awful conditions of the urban poor can be ameliorated through better planned and effective service delivery, and caring interventions.

Basic Needs and the Urban Poor
Basic Needs and the Urban Poor

Author: P. J. Richards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1351675265

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Originally published in 1984. The diverse problems suffered by the urban poor in Asia and the means by which their welfare levels can be raised are investigated comprehensively in this study. All chapters, written by specialists, deal with a particular subject but the general theme remains that the factors causing urban poverty and low income levels are interconnected and transmitted from one generation to another. It is intended that this study will lead to discussion of the problems involved in providing services for the urban poor and result in the increased responsiveness of urban management. This title will be of interest to students of urban and development studies.

Off the Books
Off the Books

Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780674044647

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In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.

The Poverty of Revolution
The Poverty of Revolution

Author: Susan Eva Eckstein

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1400853915

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The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the country's impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and state policies that were ostensibly designed to help the poor have served to maintain their poverty. She draws on intensive research in a center city slum, a squatter settlement, and a low-cost housing development. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Water Service Provision for the Peri-urban Poor in Post-conflict Angola
Water Service Provision for the Peri-urban Poor in Post-conflict Angola

Author: Allan Cain

Publisher: IIED

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 1843697548

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This paper is an output of the Sida, DANIDA and DFID funded project entitled: Improving urban water and sanitation provision globally, through information and action driven locally. This project was carried out by IIED and five of its partners in Angola, Argentina, Ghana, India and Pakistan. The project aims to document innovative and inspiring examples of locally-driven water and sanitation initiatives in deprived urban areas. The project provides a basis for better understanding of how to identify and build upon local initiatives that are likely to improve water and sanitation services. The project also looks at how local organisations in those countries have managed to: scale up successful projects; work collaboratively; finance water and sanitation schemes; and use information systems such as mapping to drive local action and monitor improvements.

Values-Based Urban Services for the Poor
Values-Based Urban Services for the Poor

Author: Peter W. Murathimme Mburu

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9783845400754

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The public and private sectors have long been associated with bias against the poor. In developing countries, this bias has predisposed the urban poor to life in slums under perpetual deprivation of urban services such as water, sanitation, education, health and shelter. Although values are determinants of social behaviour and faith based organizations (FBOs) in developed countries (e.g. USA) have been associated with treating the poor well, very little is known about how these may contribute to the delivery of urban services to the poor in a developing country context. This book has analysed FBOs' service delivery activities in urban slums, the values orientation of their staff and what motivates them into serving the poor. Similarly the book has also outlined the concept of values-based delivery of services and the effect it has on the urban poor's access to urban services. The findings of this book shed light to the contribution of values-based organizations such as FBOs towards the delivery of urban services. This book should therefore be particularly insightful to professionals in service delivery, and anybody else interested in tackling urban poor deprivations.

Access to Justice for the Urban Poor
Access to Justice for the Urban Poor

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9290920440

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This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall. It also identifies successful or promising community-based approaches to dispute resolution that can be useful in urban project design. It uses ADB's Governance policy as a framework for analyzing key findings of Access to Justice for the Urban Poor, a regional technical assistance grant to four developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific---Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The findings consist of case studies illustrating typical problems encountered by the poor in connection with access to urban assets and services, and identifies the types of grievances or disputes that may arise because of these issues. The publication reproduces key case studies to illustrate significant concepts.