Shelter and Development

作者: H. Dandekar

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-047163-1.00322-2

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摘要: The importance of access to housing in promoting well-being, enhancing the quality life, and enabling productivity has been largely recognised translated into policy. Efforts create affordable for workforce, assumed be living nuclear, one-wage-earner families, have initiated. But left out this approach plight those not workforce – elderly children women, particularly single women who are heads households having dependent children. In such single-women-headed households, entitlement house offers many benefits that promote resident’s development. needs poor-women-headed many. role shelter, defined as surrounding supportive neighbourhood, plays well-being their is significant. This article points some reasons why housing, broadly a key variable these women’s ability survive economically obtain It notes ways which policy formulated improve poor valuable asset shelter.