The growing emphasis on ensuring the sustainability of animal agriculture is providing an impetus for the adoption of new approaches to structuring and conducting research. Sustainability is a complex topic involving many considerations related to the economic, social, and environmental impacts of production systems. Successfully addressing this topic requires multidisciplinary research as well...

The development trends of Uganda’s housing policy have been erratic right from the time before independence. However, much of the housing policy development can be ascribed to the colonial period. Under this era, the provision of public housing was found to be unsustainable, especially in the 1970s. In the late 1980s, Government of Uganda adopted the enabling approach as a strategy to improve h...

Moving from Public Housing to Homeownership: Perceived Barriers to Program Participation and Success The goals of public housing have evolved from providing shelter to providing opportunities for escaping from welfare and buying one’s own home. Despite numerous federal policies aimed at enhancing resident self-sufficiency and homeownership through programs run by local public housing authoritie...

During the last few decades most developing countries have experienced a rapid growth in population which has resulted in a rapid urbanisation in the form of an expansion of existing towns, coupled with an increasing dependence upon developed countries for implementation of new housing programmes. The purpose of this study is to point out the problems of public housing, to identify the relation...

political, social, and economic spheres of iran underwent extensive changes during the pahlavi period. these evolutions brought about far-reaching cultural, population, and physical effects. in this period, centralization, immigration, and development policies led to an increasing growth in the population of tehran and consequently housing emerged in the capital. while the small-scale construct...

Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated urban environments in the world. Under its laissez faire free economy, the government dominates the supply of land. The government has applied different measures to ensure affordability in public housing, in rent setting as well as various subsidised-ownership programmes. Starting from minimal intervention towards privatisation, Hong Kong has adopt...

Dissemination of MDRC publications is also supported by the following foundations that help finance MDRC's public policy outreach and expanding efforts to communicate the results and implications of our work to policymakers, practitioners, and others: The Atlantic Philanthropies; The findings and conclusions in this report do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of the f...

Residential segregation has been one of the more frequently studied and controversial research and policy issues for urban researchers and policy makers during the last few decades. residential segregation refers to the concentration or uneven distribution of residents from different socio-economic or racial/ ethnic backgrounds across a city or region. Although research on residential segregati...

Emmett McLoughlin wrote People's Padre: An Autobiography, based on his experiences as a Roman Catholic priest advocating for the health of people in Arizona. The Beacon Press in Boston, Massachusetts, published the autobiography in 1954. McLoughlin was a Franciscan Order Roman Catholic priest who advocated for public housing and healthcare for the poor and for minority groups in Phoenix, Arizon...

BACKGROUND Cockroaches and mice, which are common in urban homes, are sources of allergens capable of triggering asthma symptoms. Traditional pest control involves the use of scheduled applications of pesticides by professionals as well as pesticide use by residents. In contrast, integrated pest management (IPM) involves sanitation, building maintenance, and limited use of least toxic pesticide...