Presents the U.S. Report for Habitat II, the Second Global Conference on Human Settlements, held in Istanbul, Turkey in June 1996. The report discusses cities i

Providing shelter after a disaster is recognised as one of the most complex areas of humanitarian relief and recovery. Some aid agencies have stopped providing

Newspapers, television and films cast homeless shelters as places of desperation, sadness and sickness. However, over the last 25 years, homeless shelters have