For a Proper Home

For a Proper Home
Author: Edward Murphy
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822980215

From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day. In analyzing the causes and consequences of this struggle, Murphy reveals a crucial connection between homeownership and understandings of proper behavior and governance. This link between property and propriety has been at the root of a powerful, contested urban politics central to both social activism and urban development projects. Through projects of reform, revolution, and reaction, a right to housing and homeownership has been a significant symbol of governmental benevolence and poverty reduction. Under Pinochet's neoliberalism, subsidized housing and slum eradication programs displaced many squatters, while awarding them homes of their own. This process, in addition to ongoing forms of activism, has permitted the vast majority of squatters to live in homes with property titles, a momentous change of the past half-century. This triumph is tempered by the fact that today the urban poor struggle with high levels of unemployment and underemployment, significant debt, and a profoundly segregated and hostile urban landscape. They also find it more difficult to mobilize than in the past, and as homeowners they can no longer rally around the cause of housing rights. Citing cultural theorists from Marx to Foucault, Murphy directly links the importance of home ownership and property rights among Santiago's urban poor to definitions of Chilean citizenship and propriety. He explores how the deeply embedded liberal belief system of individual property ownership has shaped political, social, and physical landscapes in the city. His approach sheds light on the role that social movements and the gendered contours of home life have played in the making of citizenship. It also illuminates processes through which squatters have received legally sanctioned homes of their own, a phenomenon of critical importance in cities throughout much of Latin America and the Global South.

Free to a Good Home

Free to a Good Home
Author: Eve Marie Mont
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101434856

A delightful debut novel about a woman coming to terms with past disappointments and forging a bright new future-man and dog included. Noelle Ryan works as a veterinary technician at a New England animal shelter, helping pets find homes. If only it were as easy to find one for herself. After discovering she can't have children-and watching her marriage fall apart after a shocking revelation by her husband-she feels as sad and lost as the strays she rescues. She can't seem to get over her ex, Jay. Unfortunately, all Jay wants from her is a huge favor: serving as caretaker for his elderly mother, who blames Noelle for the breakup. While Jay heads off to Atlanta to live the life of a bachelor, Noelle is left only with her Great Dane, Zeke, to comfort her. But when a carefree musician named Jasper tugs at her heartstrings, giving her a second chance at life- and at love- Noelle comes to realize that home is truly where the heart is.

A Home for Bird

A Home for Bird
Author: Philip C. Stead
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1596437111

Vernon the toad takes the silent Bird on a journey in hopes of finding Bird'shome. Full color.

At Home with Books

At Home with Books
Author: Estelle Ellis
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Books in interior decoration
ISBN: 9780517595008

At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving. Full-color photographs.

Hollow Tree House

Hollow Tree House
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Hollow Tree House" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Longing for Home

Longing for Home
Author: Sarah M. Eden
Publisher: Proper Romance
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781609074616

Wyoming Territory, 1870. Leaving Ireland Katie Macauley arrives in Hope Springs, a settlement harboring violence and a deep hatred of the Irish. Now she must decide whether to stay and give her heart a chance at love, or return home and give her soul the possibility of peace.

Free Mother to Good Home

Free Mother to Good Home
Author: Kay Taylor
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2011-11-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1452540020

Have you heard the words, I never dared to treat my parents the way kids do today? If you are a baby boomer or the parent of a tween, teen, or adult child, not only have you heard those words, you may have uttered them yourself. If, in this new age of childparent relations, youve ever felt like a helpless puppy or kitten inside a box marked Free to Good Home,if, in spite of all your love and the care with which you embraced parenting, your child has grown into an entitled and thoughtless power broker in your relationshipread on. Author Kay Taylor has studied sociology, parenting, blended families and personal growth for years; in this bold, groundbreaking book she explores the changes in our culture that she believes have given birth to what she describes as the E-generationa generation of teens and young adults that feel so empowered and entitled that they often clash with their parents, creating a palpable power struggle within the family. This often leaves good parents alone, depressed, and completely befuddled as to what they did wrong. Free Mother to Good Home comes from the heart and experiences of an everyday parent in the trenches. Taylor offers a mothers perspective, as well as a remedy for parental blues, helping parents know what they can do to get their houses and their lives back in order.

Ultimate Book of Home Plans

Ultimate Book of Home Plans
Author: Editors of Creative Homeowner
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1607653443

Select from 730 of the most popular home plans from the country’s top architects and designers, with full color photos of the actual homes, floor plans, and design ideas. Virtually every home style is offered, including farmhouses, country cottages, contemporaries, luxury estates, vacation retreats, and regional specialties. Once you’ve selected your dream home, you can obtain easily customizable construction blueprints, cost estimates, materials lists, and CAD files.