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Frustrating Beginnings: How Social Ties Compensate Housing Integration Barriers for Afghan Refugees in Vienna

How Social Ties Compensate Housing Integration Barriers for Afghan Refugees in Vienna This article presents findings from a recent (2017–2018) qualitative survey on integrating Afghan refugees in Vienna. Vienna...

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Sustainable reconstruction and planning strategies for Afghan cities: conservation in cultural and environmental heritage

Sustainable reconstruction and planning strategies for Afghan cities The reconstruction process of Afghan cities demands a sustainable reconstruction course of development so that once again they can resurrect ...

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Power, Inequality, and Local Land Conflict in Afghanistan: A Study of Kabul’s Peri-Urban Areas

Power, Inequality, and Local Land Conflict in Afghanistan This paper looks into how power hierarchies and structural inequality are often entangled within conflicts over land in Kabul’s peri-urban areas. Struct...

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Peace Building in Afghanistan Through Settlement Regularization

Peace Building in Afghanistan Through Settlement Regularization Afghanistan is a country suffering from decades of conflict, but it is also a country in which its 29 million inhabitants are trying to make a liv...

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Strengthening Displaced Women’s Housing, Land and Property Rights in Afghanistan

Strengthening Displaced Women’s Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Afghanistan Legal security of tenure is one of the key elements of the right to adequate housing. For many Afghan women, security of tenure ...

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The Crisis of Fair, Affordable Housing on Long Island: An Analysis of the Long Island Workforce Housing Act

The Crisis of Fair, Affordable Housing on Long Island Long Island, New York, a sprawling suburban region of over a hundred towns, has faced an increasing housing affordability crisis in the last several decades...