In this article, I describe efforts to manage the capacity of homeless shelter programs in Philadelphia and assess the impact of those efforts on providers and consumers of homeless services. Most reforms have focused on reducing the capacity of the shelter system by reducing the average length of stay of persons in shelter and by providing housing relocation assistance. However, these reforms ...

Over the past decade, shifts in subsidized and affordable housing policy have led to a greater role for market dynamics and individual choice on the part of program participants and their new neighbors, and a greater awareness of the importance of neighborhood on family outcomes. Given these trends, there is an opportunity for innovative prescriptive planning models to assist in the design of p...

High population growth and growing income lead to increasing demand for poultry products in Nigeria. The poultry industry has emerged as the most commercialized and fastest expanding segment in the animal husbandry subsector but still faces many problems. Private investment from foreign countries could help to facilitate this market. This paper reveals the opportunities and threats of a market ...

Received: Revised: Accepted: 2014–05–26 2014–06–2

Abstract Great efforts are currently being made to establish a solid base for the production of grain along with other agricultural products. One most important tasks in agriculture today is increase number cattle and poultry. In near future it necessary create specialized livestock complexes high-tech poultry farms each region. As result creation demand corn silage will increase. The efficienc...

We describe the successes and challenges faced by federal and local government agencies in the United States as they have attempted in recent years to connect public and environmental health, housing, community development, and building design with environmental, housing, and building laws, codes, and policies. These policies can either contribute to or adversely affect human physical and menta...

Abstract The objective of this research was to evaluate the control coccidiosis in litter commercial poultry housing Western region Paraná, Brazil, which adopts sanitary management Salmonellosis. Three treatments were selected, proposed by an integrating company region: fermentation associated with liming (FL); (L) and (F). Stool samples collected from 18 housing, a completely randomized experi...

a r t i c l e i n f o The Northridge earthquake of 1994 displaced almost 10,000 families and destroyed major transportation infrastructure within Southern California, and Hurricane Katrina created the largest national housing crisis since the Dust Bowl of 1930, destroying over 300,000 homes and leaving over one million people seeking shelter. Numerous smaller disasters each year such as tornado...