Journal articles: 'Shelter for ChildHeaded families'

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DeLuca, Stefanie, Philip M. E. Garboden, and Peter Rosenblatt. "Segregating Shelter." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647, no. 1 (April 5, 2013): 268–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716213479310.

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Individuals participating in the HUD Housing Choice Voucher program, formerly Section 8, can rent units in the private market and are not tied to public housing projects in a specific neighborhood. We would expect vouchers to help poor families leave the ghetto and move to more diverse communities with higher socioeconomic opportunity, but many voucher holders remain concentrated in poor, segregated communities. We use longitudinal qualitative data from one hundred low-income African American families in Mobile, Alabama, to explore this phenomenon, finding that tenants’ limited housing search resources, involuntary mobility, landlord practices, and several aspects of the voucher program itself limit families’ ability to escape disadvantaged areas. We also find that the voucher program’s regulations and funding structures do not incentivize housing authorities to promote neighborhood mobility and residential choice. This combination of forces often keeps voucher recipients in neighborhoods with high concentrations of poor and minority residents.

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Einbinder, Susan D. "Housing Affordability for Families With Children." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 7, no. 1 (1995): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis199571/25.

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Researchers, housing program administrators, and others assume housing costs are affordable if they represent up to 30 percent of a household's income. This standard appears to be skewed against families with children. Michael Stone's "Shelter Poverty" offers a new, in some respects more precise, measure of housing affordability. Both measures were calculated to explore housing affordability among an estimated 30 million families with children, using the 1991 American Housing Survey. One-third of families had housing difficulties under either measure, but "Shelter Poverty," concentrated among lower-income families, provides a more realistic classification for families. Adopting "Shelter Poverty" would, thus, offer a more credible guide to "affordable" housing policies for America's families with children.

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Einbinder, Susan D. "Housing Affordability for Families With Children." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 7, no. 1 (1995): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis199571/25.

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Researchers, housing program administrators, and others assume housing costs are affordable if they represent up to 30 percent of a household's income. This standard appears to be skewed against families with children. Michael Stone's "Shelter Poverty" offers a new, in some respects more precise, measure of housing affordability. Both measures were calculated to explore housing affordability among an estimated 30 million families with children, using the 1991 American Housing Survey. One-third of families had housing difficulties under either measure, but "Shelter Poverty," concentrated among lower-income families, provides a more realistic classification for families. Adopting "Shelter Poverty" would, thus, offer a more credible guide to "affordable" housing policies for America's families with children.

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Patton-Levine, BS, Jessie K., Joshua R. Vest, MPH, and Adolfo M. Valadez, MD. "Caregivers and families in medical special needs shelters: An experience during Hurricane Rita." American Journal of Disaster Medicine 2, no. 2 (March 1, 2007): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/ajdm.2007.0015.

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Introduction: Local public health departments may assume responsibility for sheltering and provid-ing care for medically needy populations displaced by disasters. In addition, medical special needs shelters will inevitably house persons not requiring medical assistance. The presence of nonpatients may help or hinder shelter operations. This analysis examines the composition, demographics, and medical requirements of a population in a special needs shelter. Methods: Frequencies and ratios were used to describe persons residing in a medical special needs shelter. All data were obtained from registration records from the city of Austin’s medical special needs shelter, established in response to Hurricane Rita in 2005. Results: The medically needy accounted for 58.4 percent of the shelter population. For every 100 patients, the shelter housed 71.2 nonpatients. The most common nonpatients in the shelter were family caregivers (13.1 percent), followed by dependent chil-dren (8.0 percent). Most professional caregivers were associated with some type of group facility. Conclusions: Sheltering a medically needy popu-lation means caring not only for patients but also for their accompanying caregivers, family, and depend-ents. Non–medically needy persons utilize shelter capacity and require different resources. Shelter staffing plans should not rely heavily on assistance from accompanying caregivers; instead, they should assume a substantial proportion of shelter capacity will be dedicated to non–medically needy persons.

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Kim and Garcia. "Why Do Homeless Families Exit and Return the Homeless Shelter? Factors Affecting the Risk of Family Homelessness in Salt Lake County (Utah, United States) as a Case Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 22 (November 6, 2019): 4328. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224328.

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Previous quantitative research on family homelessness has addressed a question of why some households become homeless. However, why some homeless families return the shelter to repeat their homelessness has not been explored well. This study aims at providing a comprehensive insight into the dynamics of homeless families by identifying the physical, social, and economic characteristics of a homeless family affecting the likelihood of their decision to stay, exit, and return the shelter. The relationships of factors with shelter exit and return were examined using Kaplan-Meier estimates of survival times and Cox Proportional Hazard regression analysis. This study employs a sample of 2348 historical records for 1462 homeless families registered to the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) database between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2017. The results indicate that structural factors such as subsidized housing program enrollment during a homeless episode and prior income play a significant role in reducing the risks of shelter exit and return rather than physical characteristics of a homeless family. Additionally, results show that variations in prior residence and exit destination of homeless families serve as factors determining the length of their shelter stay and the likelihood to return to the shelter. Integration of both shelter exit and return analysis results make policymakers and urban planners think about developing policies for coordination of housing and economic stability to address family homelessness.

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Rocha, Cynthia, Alice K. Johnson, Kay Young McChesney, and William H. Butterfield. "Predictors of Permanent Housing for Sheltered Homeless Families." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 77, no. 1 (January 1996): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.838.

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The authors analyze 10 years of data on homelessness to determine the characteristics of homeless families most likely to find permanent housing after leaving a shelter environment. They studied 1,156 families from 1983 to 1992 to determine where these families go after leaving the shelter and whether the pattern changed over time. Logistic regression analysis found that the larger the family size and being African American were factors that predicted a decreased likelihood of finding permanent housing. Families with one child were 1.5 times more likely to find permanent housing than were families with three children, and whites were 1.9 times more likely to find permanent housing than were African Americans. Furthermore, homeless shelter residents were five times more likely to find permanent housing in 1983 than in 1992, regardless of demographic predictors. Practice and policy implications are discussed.

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Phillips, Michael H., Neal DeChillo, Daniel Kronenfeld, and Verona Middleton-Jeter. "Homeless Families: Services Make a Difference." Social Casework 69, no. 1 (January 1988): 48–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104438948806900108.

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An emergency shelter that provides services to single-parent homeless families is described. Findings indicate that when the concrete needs of families are met during the initial stage of treatment, a trusting relationship can be established between the worker and client.

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Vandenbeld Giles, Melinda. "Not a home: Shelter families living in Canadian motels." Current Sociology 68, no. 5 (June 12, 2020): 701–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392120927739.

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Given the precarity and mobility of neoliberalism, there has been increasing interest into constructs of ‘home’. In this article, the author defines ‘home’ as an active and relational process encompassing interactions between materiality and immateriality. Participant observation research conducted amongst shelter families in Toronto, Canada, living in motels can shed light on some of these larger global conversations about what ‘home’ is, and particularly, what it is not. These motels are utilized as part of the City of Toronto Shelter, Support and Housing Administration providing free shelter to impoverished families in need. Social workers, shelter managers and local faith group volunteers assert that the motels should be considered ‘home’ and the problem is that the women living in the motels with their children treat the physical space as transitory. In contrast, the women assert that the motel space is not a home and can never be made into one. The author argues that for these women, there are three critical elements missing in the motel: control over space, safety/security and privacy. The assertion that the motel space is not a home is a significant form of resistance to the regulatory bureaucratic structuring of daily life. However, despite this absence of home, the women feel strong identification as mothers and have formed systems of informal shared networks. This research helps to further illuminate not only our understandings of ‘home’, but also deepen and complicate normative associations equating ‘home’ with physical structure, domesticity and family.

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Kimberlin, Sara, Sara Schwartz, and Michael Austin. "Shelter Network: Serving Homeless Families and Individuals (1987-2007)." Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 8, no. 1 (January 2011): 179–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15433714.2011.542391.

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Fisher, Benjamin W., Lindsay S. Mayberry, Marybeth Shinn, and Jill Khadduri. "Leaving Homelessness Behind: Housing Decisions Among Families Exiting Shelter." Housing Policy Debate 24, no. 2 (March 25, 2014): 364–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2013.852603.

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Abdelmoneium, Azza. "Internally displaced families in Khartoum-Sudan: challenges and policy implications." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 12, no. 4 (December 12, 2016): 252–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-05-2015-0017.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how internally displaced families in Khartoum-Sudan face difficulties and challenges in meeting their basic needs of shelter and health when they are displaced from their homes. By using empirical data, the factors that hinder families in getting access to shelter and health provision and how they survive with few facilities provided to them will be discussed. The paper will also highlight the role of the state in the situation of the displaced families and the services provided to them. Design/methodology/approach Various methods were used in the research, among them were interviews and focus-group discussions. Interviews were conducted with children aged 10-18 years. A sample of 129 children from four camps was selected, and parents or guardians of the children were interviewed. The theoretical section on what is displacement and how displaced people meet their basic needs and rights gives a background on how displaced families in Sudan survive and struggle to meet their health and shelter rights. Findings The basic needs for the displaced families were not met, and if they were met, it would have led to better living conditions, stability and security for these people. The paper concludes with some recommendations. Originality/value The state should meet the basic needs and rights of the internally displaced people. It is the responsibility of the state to ensure that health and shelter are provided to displaced people.

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Sylvestre, John, Nick Kerman, Alexia Polillo, Catherine M. Lee, Tim Aubry, and Konrad Czechowski. "A Qualitative Study of the Pathways Into and Impacts of Family Homelessness." Journal of Family Issues 39, no. 8 (December 14, 2017): 2265–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x17746709.

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Homelessness has consequences for families, including risk of deterioration in the health of their members, disruption of family dynamics, and separation of parents and children. This study used qualitative interviews to explore pathways into and perceived consequences of homelessness among 18 families living in an emergency family shelter system in Canada. Findings showed that families’ experiences prior to their homelessness were characterized by vulnerability, instability, and isolation. In the emergency shelter system, families faced new challenges in environments that were restrictive, noisy, chaotic, and afforded little privacy. Participants described a further disruption of relationships and described having to change their family practices and routines. Despite the challenges that families encountered, some participants felt optimistic and hopeful about the future. Future research is needed on ways in which shelters can be more hospitable, supportive, and helpful for parents and their families to minimize negative impacts and facilitate timely rehousing of families.

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Cook-Craig, Patricia, and Laura Koehly. "Stability in the Social Support Networks of Homeless Families in Shelter: Findings From a Study of Families in a Faith-Based Shelter Program." Journal of Family Social Work 14, no. 3 (May 2011): 191–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2011.571553.

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Lamontagne, Angélique, Rebecca Johnson, Gretchen Carlisle, Leslie Lyons, Jessica Bibbo, Colleen Koch, and Steven Osterlind. "Efficacy of the Feline Temperament Profile in evaluating sheltered cats for adoption into families of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder." Animal Studies Journal 9, no. 2 (December 2020): 21–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.14453/asj/v9.i2.3.

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This project was part of the Feline Friends Study, which matches shelter cats with families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to study children’s social behaviour and cats’ stress. Cats were screened for calm temperament using the Feline Temperament Profile (FTP). The FTP consists of ten phases, with a list of ‘acceptable’ and ‘questionable’ behaviours under each phase. Our aim was to answer the following research questions: What items of the FTP best predict temperament in shelter cats? What are similarities and differences in temperament between cats who qualified or did not qualify for placement? Forty-four shelter cats were rejected for placement in a home with a child with ASD and twenty-six cats qualified. There was no difference according to sex; however, there was a significant difference in FTP scores across animal shelters. Principal Component Analysis showed that ‘vocalizations’ and ‘watches with no approach’ were most predictive of acceptable temperament. The findings show that the FTP can be shortened with no loss of reliability, facilitating shelter efforts to rehome cats successfully. The implementation of FTP could effectively reduce the amount of time cats spend in the shelter as well as the number returned to the shelter after adoption, resulting in improved welfare both at the shelter (shorter stay) and in their new home (decreased return).

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Dehavenon, Anna. "Monitoring Emergency Shelter for Homeless Families in New York City." Practicing Anthropology 16, no. 4 (September 1, 1994): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.16.4.1024055517228645.

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"Sleeping on the floor… huddled in corners of the structures in the hallway… filthy, atrocious bathrooms, no toilet paper or paper towels, mice and cockroaches, sick children, children sleeping in strollers, hot, humid, and chaotic conditions; families sleeping on plastic chairs, or on newspapers spread out on the floor; and families with inadequate food and drink." Author's expert witness testimony in McCain vs. Dinkins, 1991.

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Polillo, Alexia, Nick Kerman, John Sylvestre, Catherine M. Lee, and Tim Aubry. "The health of foreign-born homeless families living in the family shelter system." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 14, no. 3 (September 10, 2018): 260–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-11-2017-0048.

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Purpose Foreign-born families face challenges following migration to Canada that may impact their well-being and lead them to homelessness. Yet, there is limited research on the experience of homelessness in this population. The purpose of this paper is to examine the health of foreign-born families staying in the emergency shelter system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and compare their experiences to Canadian-born homeless families who are also living in shelters. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were conducted with 75 adult heads of families who were residing in three family shelters. This study focused on mental and physical health functioning, chronic medical conditions, access to care and diagnoses of mental disorders. Findings Foreign-born heads of families reported better mental health than did Canadian-born heads of families with a significantly lower proportion of foreign-born participants reporting having been diagnosed with a mental disorder. Foreign-born heads of families also reported fewer chronic medical conditions than did Canadian-born heads of families. Research limitations/implications This study relied on self-reported health and access to healthcare services. Data were drawn from a small, non-random sample. Originality/value This study is one of the first studies to examine the health and well-being of homeless foreign-born heads of families. Moreover, this paper also focuses on disparities in health, diagnoses of mental disorders, and access to healthcare services between foreign-born and Canadian-born families – a comparison that has not been captured in the existing literature.

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Dehavenon, Anna. "Ethnographic Research for Voluntary Agencies Serving Homeless Families in New York City." Practicing Anthropology 11, no. 2 (April 1, 1989): 8–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.11.2.l70751l63l738646.

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In 1988, New York City nightly sheltered more than 15,000 individual members of 5,000 families with children in its emergency shelter system. On a given day, tens of thousands of other families stayed temporarily in the apartments of their friends and relatives. Such families are incipiently homeless because they are the ones who will have to leave if the stress of crowding or lack of privacy in these homes becomes too great. Because of the. high cost of rentals, almost their only chance of finding an apartment of their own (unless they have an income of at least $25,000) is in becoming eligible for a rehabilitated apartment owned by the city through tax default. This eligibility begins only after a family has been in the shelter system continuously for at least 12 months, however.

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Bishop, Thomas. "“The Struggle to Sell Survival”: Family Fallout Shelters and the Limits of Consumer Citizenship." Modern American History 2, no. 02 (June 11, 2019): 117–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mah.2019.8.

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In 1961 families across the United States witnessed the sudden growth of one of the most remarkable consumer products of the Cold War: the home fallout shelter. This article charts the rise of domestic sales for home fallout shelters between 1961 and 1963, the growth in the number of shelter salesmen, the public backlash against their sales techniques, and the eventual decline of the home shelter market. The story of the family fallout shelter exposes the limitations of consumer capitalism in mobilizing and sustaining popular support for national security policy. Questioning the validity of the product being sold and the trustworthiness of the person pitching it, homeowners challenged the citizen-consumer ideal that supposedly went hand-in-hand with the state sanctioned vision of privatized survival.

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Schluter, Philip, Maria Bellringer, and Max Abbott. "Maternal gambling associated with families' food, shelter, and safety needs: Findings from the Pacific Islands Families Study." Journal of Gambling Issues, no. 19 (January 1, 2007): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2007.19.10.

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From a cohort study of Pacific families with children resident in Auckland (n = 983) we examine the association between maternal gambling over the previous 12 months and families' food, shelter, and safety needs. Overall, 666 (68%) mothers reported no gambling, 267 (27%) reported gambling but receiving no criticism, and 50 (5%) reported both gambling and receiving criticism. Compared to those with nongambling mothers, households with gambling mothers were more likely to have both food and housing issues related to a lack of money but no excess in physical intimate partner violence.

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Adhikari, Harasankar. "Living Status/Shelter of Street Families of Kolkata: Prospects and Challenges." OALib 01, no. 06 (2014): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1100571.

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Rimmer, R., D. M. Caruso, K. N. Foster, and M. Wood. "Benefits of a Shelter “Courage House” for Families of Burn Patients." Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation 23 (March 2002): S164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004630-200203002-00242.

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Weinreb, Linda, Debra J. Rog, and Kathryn A. Henderson. "Exiting Shelter: An Epidemiological Analysis of Barriers and Facilitators for Families." Social Service Review 84, no. 4 (December 2010): 597–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/657108.

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Parrack, Charles, Bill Flinn, and Megan Passey. "Getting the Message Across for Safer Self-Recovery in Post-Disaster Shelter." Open House International 39, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-03-2014-b0006.

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Self-recovery in post-disaster shelter is not the exception but the norm. Following earthquake, flood or storm, the majority of affected families will inevitably rebuild their homes themselves, using their own resources, but there is little support from the international community to encourage good safe building practice. While the communication of key messages about safer building has been carried out effectively in development contexts, it rarely forms a major part of humanitarian response programming. If the humanitarian shelter sector is committed to the principles of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), more can be done to support the process of safer reconstruction among self-rebuilders. This paper argues the case for the humanitarian community to link post-disaster shelter programming with the more developmental approach of communicating building safety to a much wider audience than just the most vulnerable beneficiaries. It proposes the shelter sector and the donor community direct more resources towards support for this process, which would augment the effectiveness and impact of a shelter response.

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Horton, Lucy E., Susannah Graves, Kathleen Fischer, Gina Fleming-Magit, Camila Romero, Christine Thorne, Eric McDonald, et al. "1618. Public Health at the United States/Mexico Border: Evaluation of the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency’s Health Screening Assessment of Asylum-Seeking Families at the San Diego Rapid Response Network Shelter." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 6, Supplement_2 (October 2019): S590. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1482.

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Abstract Background Many families arrive at the United States–Mexico border seeking asylum. Jewish Family Service and the San Diego Rapid Response Network operate a shelter in San Diego that provides shelter, food, clothing, legal services and travel coordination for asylum-seeking families. Two local federally qualified health centers provide on-site urgent care. Methods In late December 2018, the County of San Diego expanded public health efforts by conducting health screenings of guests upon entry to the shelter with the goal of identifying health issues requiring urgent or emergent evaluation and preventing the spread of communicable disease. University of California San Diego Health physicians contracted by the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) nurses and ancillary staff provide daily on-site services to all shelter entrants including: health screening for diseases of public health significance, treatment and/or referral of urgent conditions, and medical clearance for shelter entry or medical isolation as needed. Official tracking of screening outcomes from January 2 to April 24, 2019 were collected using standardized surveys and analyzed for program evaluation and surveillance purposes. Results During that time a total of 9,124 asylum-seekers were screened, averaging 81 guests daily, identifying: 42 influenza-like illness, 645 lice, 330 scabies, 8 varicella, and 0 hepatitis A cases. Chest radiography for suspected tuberculosis was performed for 29 guests. Only one chest x-ray was abnormal. Sputum specimens for acid-fast stain (n = 3) and nucleic acid testing (n = 2) were all negative and no tuberculosis cases were diagnosed. Emergency department referrals were made for <1% of guests (n = 90) for conditions including pregnancy complications, asthma, dysentery, hemoptysis and fractures. No deaths or outbreaks of communicable disease occurred. Conclusion Coordination among local partner agencies resulted in early identification of communicable and acute health conditions prior to shelter entry allowing evaluation, treatment and off-site isolation, and minimizing stress on the emergency medical services system. This approach provides a successful model for health screening of asylum-seeking families arriving at the United States–Mexico border. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.

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Alleyne-Green, Binta, Alex Kulick, and Kendra P. DeLoach McCutcheon. "Parenting Satisfaction Among Homeless Caregivers." Journal of Family Issues 40, no. 1 (October 19, 2018): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x18806331.

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This study explored the impact of parenting satisfaction and shelter comfort on depression and parenting stress among an urban sample of homeless caregivers residing in New York City. This research provides a new understanding of the impact that parenting satisfaction and shelter comfort has on depression and stress on homeless parents ( n = 201). Linear regression results indicated that parenting satisfaction and shelter environment were the biggest influencers of homeless families experiencing more or less parenting stress. Black parents reported significantly lower rates of parenting stress than their non-Black counterparts. Results also indicated that, as parents become more satisfied with their parenting and feel more comfortable at the shelter, they experienced fewer depressive symptoms. We also found that when parents were satisfied with their parenting, they experienced less parenting stress. Study limitations and future research are also discussed.

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Widdup, Keith, Shirley Nichols, Warren Williams, Isabelle Verry, and Ben Harvey. "Adaptation of Trifolium repens × T. uniflorum hybrid clovers to drought stress." Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association 76 (January 1, 2014): 183–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.2014.76.2942.

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Abstract White clover (Trifolium repens L.) is valued for its contribution to pasture quality and utilisation by animals, compatibility with grass, and fixation of nitrogen. However, it is limited by poor adaptation to drought. Hybridisation with Trifolium uniflorum L. may have potential to improve the drought resistance of white clover. An experiment in a rain shelter facility with contrasting moisture treatments, and a field evaluation under dryland conditions, were used to compare the agronomic potential of these interspecific hybrids (ISH) with white clover in moisture limited conditions. In the rain shelter experiment, there were smaller effects of water stress on shoot dry weight (DW), leaf area, internode length and senescence of first backcross generation hybrids compared with white clover and second backcross generation hybrids. Differences in photosynthetic responses were possibly influenced by the effect of root DW allocation on water uptake. In the field evaluation, growth scores of a wider range of hybrid families during summer moisture stress concurred with the results under water stress in the rain shelter. Growth of some ISH families outperformed the best white clover cultivars, particularly in the third and most stressful summer and this result was a key performance indicator of the value of the hybrids for drought prone areas. These findings using early, unselected, hybrid populations indicate the potential for further selection of elite, adapted cultivars from ISH breeding strategies. Keywords: Interspecific clover hybrid, drought resistance, rain shelter, field evaluation

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Hassan, Faraz, Emma Grant, and Sophie Stevens. "Understanding shelter from a gender perspective: the case of Hawassa, Ethiopia." Environment and Urbanization 32, no. 2 (July 30, 2020): 463–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247820942109.

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The city of Hawassa is growing fast, driven by construction of a flagship industrial park that is expected to attract up to 60,000 workers by 2021, mostly young women, arriving without families or dependents, and living off very low wages. Along with these young women, female-headed households; divorced, separated and widowed women; elderly women; and women with disabilities all face severe/acute shelter vulnerabilities. These groups are most likely to struggle to access both formal and informal shelter, related to their below-average income levels but also to other forms of bias and discrimination. This paper draws out key findings on gender and housing from a collaborative study investigating shelter provision in Hawassa, part of a wider research study on inclusive cities in East Africa led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). It aims to highlight specific constraints faced by women in accessing shelter, and around such issues as informality, safety and security, and infrastructure provision.

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Millett, Mallory A., Lauren E. Cook, Antonius D. Skipper, Cassandra D. Chaney, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite. "Weathering the Storm: The Shelter of Faith for Black American Christian Families." Marriage & Family Review 54, no. 7 (June 20, 2018): 662–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469572.

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Howell, Jayne. "Different Paths Lead to the Shelter: Homeless Women's Struggles and Goals." Practicing Anthropology 21, no. 1 (January 1, 1999): 28–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.21.1.r131k33u4h5635p0.

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In a survey of ethnicity, gender, and homelessness, S. G. Baker (1994) observes, "at no time in U.S. history has homelessness proved so far-reaching in its demographic scope" (Gender Ethnicity and Homelessness: Accounting for Demographic Diversity on the Streets. The American Behavioral Scientist, 37:476-504, 1994:476). She suggests that the term "homeless" currently refers to men, women, and children of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds who live on the streets or use the services of shelters. Baker notes that although many homeless individuals lack familial support, there is a difference in men's and women's relationships with their families. In particular, homeless women often have less desire than men for contact with their families of origin, yet are more likely than men to be accompanied by dependent children.

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Fraenkel, Peter. "Time as a source of struggle and resilience in homeless families." Time & Society 29, no. 2 (April 11, 2020): 581–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463x20908082.

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A common myth about families living in homeless shelters is that they are laconically and contentedly waiting around for housing, financial support through welfare or jobs, and other resources and services. Nothing could be further from the truth. Single parents in shelters dealing with inequities incurred by poverty are busy trying to procure housing, jobs, and other resources while managing children’s behavior and homework, and while attempting to maintain the family’s sense of relational and emotional integrity. Thirty-six African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Latinx families living in a New York City shelter were interviewed about the time challenges they face and their means of coping with those challenges. Six themes emerged: (1) franticness, time pressure, and sense of having not enough time; (2) the temporal unpredictability of daily life; (3) the unpredictability of time to live in shelter; (4) anxious waiting for next steps toward employment and housing; (5) the shelter’s control of time; and (6) the importance of family time and strategies used to sustain it. These findings are discussed using theoretical perspectives about the elements of temporal behavior, as well as research on time and personal agency, and recommendations are made for professionals working to support homeless families, especially around their temporal challenges.

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Garcia, Angela Cora. "The Place of the Dog in the Family." Society & Animals 24, no. 3 (June 7, 2016): 289–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341411.

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This paper explores how perspectives on the appropriate place of the dog in the family shape the practice and experience of dog adoption. This research is based on a comparative case study of a traditional shelter and an independent animal rescue organization. The data were collected through participant observation and interviews with directors and volunteers at these organizations, and with people who adopted dogs through shelter or independent animal rescue organizations. The independent rescue organizations tended to use “dog-centric” discourse to describe the relationship between the dog and its prospective family, while the traditional animal shelter and some adoptive families used “human-centric” discourse. These perspectives were tied to the adoption practices of the organizations and individuals’ experiences while adopting a dog. The implications of these findings for the practice of dog adoption are discussed, and suggestions for shelters and animal rescue organizations are presented.

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Abell, Melissa L., Timothy L. Davey, Paul Clark, and Nathan H. Perkins. "Community Case Management Intervention for Hard-to-Place Homeless Families Leaving Emergency Shelter." Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless 19, no. 1-2 (December 2009): 121–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/105307809805365109.

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Solari, Claudia D., Douglas Walton, and Jill Khadduri. "How Well Do Housing Vouchers Work for Black Families Experiencing Homelessness?: Evidence from the Family Options Study." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 693, no. 1 (January 2021): 193–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716221996678.

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We investigate whether racial disparities exist among homeless families with priority access to the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. The families we studied moved from emergency shelter into subsidized housing and sometimes left the HCV program, and our results suggest that the HCV program works as well for Black families as it does for White families. The rates at which families used the vouchers to lease a housing unit are similarly high for each group. The rate at which families exit from the HCV program does not differ between White and Black families, but the factors that predict exit do differ by race. For all families, access to a voucher reduces returns to homelessness, doubling up, and moving. These results confirm that in the United States—a country with a history of racial disparities in housing—the HCV program can help alleviate the effects of severe poverty and provide housing opportunities that advantage both White and Black families.

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Lindsey, Elizabeth W. "Mothers' Perceptions of Factors Influencing the Restabilization of Homeless Families." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 77, no. 4 (April 1996): 203–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.902.

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Family homelessness has increased dramatically in the past decade, but little attention has been focused on the process by which homeless families become restabilized. The author presents findings from a qualitative study of the restabilisation process. Four factors that affect the process are discussed: children, personal resources, external resources, and socioeconomic context. The findings indicate the significant role shelter staff and other social service providers can play in assisting mothers in both emotional and instrumental ways. Implications for direct practice with homeless mothers and their families are discussed as well as implications for policy and program development.

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Vasil'eva, Elena Yur'evna, Elena Viktorovna Frolova, and Olga Vladimirovna Rogach. "Exercising the right to shelter for orphans and children abandoned by their parents in the Russian Federation." Урбанистика, no. 1 (January 2020): 104–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2310-8673.2020.1.31810.

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The object of this research is the Russian practice of providing shelter to orphans and children abandoned by their parents. The authors examine such aspects of the problem as availability and capability of timely provision of shelter to orphans after release from orphanage, as well as mechanisms of exercising right to shelter for this social group. Special attention is given to the dysfunctions in the work of regional and municipal authorities regarding creation of environment enabling orphans to exercise such right. The information framework for this research consists of federal and regional normative-legislative acts, as well as information and analytical data forwarded by the regional authorities to the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation for the period of 2014-2019. A conclusion is made that the modern practice of providing shelter for orphans is a prerequisite for development of social injustice regarding families, in which parents diligently carry out their obligations, lead socially acceptable lifestyle, but are unable to provide their children with separate housing. The solution to this situation can come from creation of housing that cannot be privatized or be subject to alienation and made available for social renting.

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Zhang, Wen, Linlin Li, Xutao Deng, Beatrix Kapusinszky, Patricia A. Pesavento, and Eric Delwart. "Faecal virome of cats in an animal shelter." Journal of General Virology 95, no. 11 (November 1, 2014): 2553–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.069674-0.

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We describe the metagenomics-derived feline enteric virome in the faeces of 25 cats from a single shelter in California. More than 90 % of the recognizable viral reads were related to mammalian viruses and the rest to bacterial viruses. Eight viral families were detected: Astroviridae, Coronaviridae, Parvoviridae, Circoviridae, Herpesviridae, Anelloviridae, Caliciviridae and Picobirnaviridae. Six previously known viruses were also identified: feline coronavirus type 1, felid herpes 1, feline calicivirus, feline norovirus, feline panleukopenia virus and picobirnavirus. Novel species of astroviruses and bocaviruses, and the first genome of a cyclovirus in a feline were characterized. The RNA-dependent RNA polymerase region from four highly divergent partial viral genomes in the order Picornavirales were sequenced. The detection of such a diverse collection of viruses shed within a single shelter suggested that such animals experience robust viral exposures. This study increases our understanding of the viral diversity in cats, facilitating future evaluation of their pathogenic and zoonotic potentials.

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Sunarno, Imam, and Yayuk Endah Suryani. "Family Knowledge about Release the Restraint." Jurnal Ners dan Kebidanan (Journal of Ners and Midwifery) 4, no. 2 (October 16, 2017): 153–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.26699/jnk.v4i2.art.p153-159.

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Shelter is an action that uses binding or isolation. In the city of Blitar the number ofODGJ as many as 447 people, while in the village of Kepanjen Kidul there are 117 peoplewith mental disorders, 3 of which carried pemasungan. Good knowledge will make thedeprivation of shelter action. The purpose of the study illustrates the family knowledge aboutthe release of ODGJ stalks in the working area of UPTD Pukesmas Kepanjen Kidul KotaBlitar. This research method using descriptive design. The population in this study is thefamily who has severe mental disorder as many as 117 people and the sample size is 30people with purposive sampling technique. Data collection was done by using questionnaire.The data were collected on January 28 - March 31, 2017. The research results showed thatfamily knowledge was less than 76.7%. Recommendations for UPTD PukesmasKepanjenkidul and cadres as sources of information and expected mental cadres and healthworkers to provide KIE to ODGJ families about the liberation of the pavement to reduce andprevention of shelter action.

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Anggriani, Errika Putri. "Policy on Reducing Child Labor as the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor." Unnes Law Journal 6, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/ulj.v6i1.8222.

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The more complex issue of child labor now a days because many children work at school age. Child labor vulnerable to be exploitated, doing hazardous work, mor a land psychological, and hampered to access education. So the government issued a policy Reduction of Child Labour in order to Support the Family Hope Program (PPA-PKH) as efforts to Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child (PBPTA) in order for the child can be returned in the educational unit, Pemalang is one of the districts that run the program PPA -PKH. Problems examined: (1) Implementation of PPA-PKH asefforts of PBPTA in Pemalang (2) Obstacles and over coming obstacles in the implementation of PPA-PKH policiesas PBPTA efforts in Pemalang. This study using sociological juridical approach. Results of the study (1) Implementation of policies PPA-PKH in Pemalang has been run in accordance with the purpose, with the establishment of shelters through three stages: pre shelter, the implementation in the shelter, and after the implementation form shelter and get a recommendation schools (2) Efforts to overcome the obstacles in the implementation of PPA -PKH policies in Pemalang which includes the beneficiaries of data was only 10% valid so that need to perform additional data. Inability of companionon the shelter so tha this attemptstomake psycologis approachand change the way of learning. Lack of coordination between relevant government service to coordinate their efforts and commitment among relevant government service and proposing a scholarship program for the children of beneficiaries. The advice given by the researchers that the data of beneficiaries must be renewed every year, provide socialiszation that bring about beneficiary families about the importance of education impact economic development of families, increased coordination between relevant government service, there is certainly that the child gets a scholarship or BSM for education.

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Richards, Rickelle, and Chery Smith. "Shelter Environment and Placement in Community Affects Lifestyle Factors among Homeless Families in Minnesota." American Journal of Health Promotion 21, no. 1 (September 2006): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-21.1.36.

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Weitzman, B. C., J. R. Knickman, and M. Shinn. "Predictors of shelter use among low-income families: psychiatric history, substance abuse, and victimization." American Journal of Public Health 82, no. 11 (November 1992): 1547–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.82.11.1547.

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Brophy, Jere, and Janet Alleman. "Primary-Grade Students’ Knowledge and Thinking About the Economics of Meeting Families’ Shelter Needs." American Educational Research Journal 39, no. 2 (June 2002): 423–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/00028312039002423.

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Stojanovic, Daniela, Beth C. Weitzman, Marybeth Shinn, Larissa E. Labay, and Nathaniel P. Williams. "Tracing the path out of homelessness: The housing patterns of families after exiting shelter." Journal of Community Psychology 27, no. 2 (March 1999): 199–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199903)27:2<199::aid-jcop7>3.0.co;2-g.

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Richards, Rickelle, and Chery Smith. "Shelter Environment and Placement in Community Affects Lifestyle Factors among Homeless Families in Minnesota." American Journal of Health Promotion 21, no. 1 (September 2006): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089011710602100107.

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Longo, Agustina. "Consumo y manejo de plantas durante el primer y segundo milenio d.C. en tres sitios arqueológicos del valle de Santa María (Catamarca-Tucumán, Argentina)." Darwiniana, nueva serie 9, no. 1 (2021): 95–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.14522/darwiniana.2021.91.939.

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This paper analyses the practices related to the consumption and management of plants in the central-western sector of the Santa María valley (Catamarca-Tucumán) during the first and second millennium AD. For this purpose, we worked with macroremains recovered in the occupation floors and with microremains present in ceramic vessels from the archaeological sites Morro del Fraile, El Carmen 1, and El Carmen 2. A total of 546 carpological macroremains corresponding to seven families, Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Fabaceae, Malvaceae, Poaceae and Solanaceae, and 10 microremains from the families Cucurbitaceae and Poaceae, were identified. The similarities between El Carmen 2 enclosure 2 and Morro del Fraile rock shelter suggest that sites occupied since the first millennium AD would have taken advantage of a greater diversity of plants, which in turn show a great diversity of management practices, in relation to sites occupied from the second millennium A.D., as observed in El Carmen 1 enclosures 1 and 13. The similarities between El Carmen 2 enclosure 2 and Morro del Fraile rock shelter would also indicate a diversity of contexts within the second millennium AD, with spaces that show a lower diversity of plants (El Carmen 1 enclosures 1 and 13) and spaces that, during the second millennium AD, exhibit practices that refer to those known for the villages of the first millennium AD (Morro del Fraile rock shelter), such as the consumption of a great diversity of wild, weedy and domesticated plants, with a predominance of Trichocereus and various Amaranthaceae.

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Lindsey, Elizabeth W. "Service Providers' Perception of Factors that Help or Hinder Homeless Families." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 79, no. 2 (April 1998): 160–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.1815.

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Homeless shelter directors in two southern states were surveyed to ascertain their perceptions of factors that help or hinder homeless, mother-headed families in emerging from homelessness. Respondents believed that mothers' attitudes and motivation were the most important factors in getting and keeping housing and that lack of social supports and relationship difficulties were the most significant problems families faced in their attempts to emerge from homelessness. Scarce housing was seen as the most significant barrier within the community. The findings are compared with findings from other studies, and explanations for differing results are presented. The author discusses the implications of the findings for service providers and communities in light of recent welfare-reform legislation.

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Scheel-Ybert, Rita, and Caroline Bachelet. "A Good Place to Live: Plants and People at the Santa Elina Rock Shelter (Central Brazil) from Late Pleistocene to the Holocene." Latin American Antiquity 31, no. 2 (May 12, 2020): 273–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2020.3.

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The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) was recurrently occupied from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We compare sets of previously published anthracological analyses with new data to reconstruct the landscape, vegetation, and climate over the several thousand years of occupation, providing information on firewood management from about 27,000 to about 1500 cal BP. Laboratory analyses followed standard anthracological procedures. We identified 34 botanical families and 84 genera in a sample of almost 5,000 charcoal pieces. The Leguminosae family dominates the assemblage, followed by Anacardiaceae, Bignoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Sapotaceae. The area surrounding the shelter was forested throughout the studied period. The local landscape was formed, as it is today, by a mosaic of vegetation types that include forest formations and open cerrado. Some regional vegetation changes may have occurred over time. Our data corroborate the practice of opportunistic firewood gathering in all periods of site occupation, despite a possible cultural preference for some taxa. The very long occupation of Santa Elina may be due not only to its attractiveness as a rock shelter but also to the continuously forested vegetation around it. It was a good place to live.

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Shinn, M., B. C. Weitzman, D. Stojanovic, J. R. Knickman, L. Jiménez, L. Duchon, S. James, and D. H. Krantz. "Predictors of homelessness among families in New York City: from shelter request to housing stability." American Journal of Public Health 88, no. 11 (November 1998): 1651–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.88.11.1651.

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Berjis, S. S., S. Goldsmith, R. Grant, and A. Shapiro. "Identifying Nutrition Intervention Strategies for Homeless Families Living in the New York City Shelter System." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 105, no. 8 (August 2005): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2005.05.051.

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Flinn, Bill. "Defining ‘Better’ Better." Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jha.032.

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This paper explores the importance of house and home for survivors of natural disaster: it protects from hazards and contributes to health, well-being and economic security. It examines the reconstruction of homes after a disaster as an opportunity to Build Back Better, re-defining ‘better’ as an holistic and people-centred improvement in housing. It questions the humanitarian shelter sector’s emphasis on structural safety while poor sanitation, inadequate vector control and smoke inhalation are responsible for many more deaths worldwide than earthquakes and storms. The paper extends this discussion by arguing that promoting ‘safer’ for a substantial number of families is better than insisting on ‘safe’ for fewer. The overall benefit in terms of lives saved, injuries avoided and reduced economic loss is greater when safer is prioritised over safe, and it frees resources for wider consideration of a ‘good home’ and the pursuance of ‘self-recovery’. The paper is informed by field research conducted in 2017 and 2018. Finally, implications for humanitarian shelter practice are outlined, with particular reference to self-recovery. It highlights a need for adaptive programming, knowledge exchange and close accompaniment so that families and communities can make informed choices with respect to their own recovery pathways.

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Dawson, Peter C. "Seeing like an Inuit family: The relationship between house form and culture in northern Canada." Études/Inuit/Studies 30, no. 2 (February 7, 2008): 113–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/017568ar.

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AbstractIn his classic essaySeasonal Variations of the Eskimo, Marcel Mauss argued that a strong relationship exists between the spatial organisation of traditional Inuit house forms and the social morphology of the families they shelter. These observations anticipate later works in anthropology that examine how cultural processes are reflected in, and sustained by, the built environment. Such ideas are important when considering the effects of post-war housing programs on Inuit families in the Canadian Arctic. During the 1960s, attempts were made to restructure the routines of Inuit families through Euro-Canadian architecture and home economics classes. Recent ethnographic observations of Inuit households in operation, however, reveal that many continue to use their houses in traditional ways. By doing so, Inuit families are attempting to adapt to dwellings designed around another culture’s concept of homemaking and family life. Mauss’s ideas are therefore a poignant reminder of the need to take cultural factors into account when developing aboriginal housing policy.

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