Poverty & Homelessness

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope....

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood....

In this unabridged, enlightening and often shocking expose of life on the streets of two of Europe's most romanticised and celebrated cities, Orwell describes in detail the day-to-day life of a 'down-and-out'....

Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....

A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....

Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....

Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years....

With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....

Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight....

Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects firsthand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain....  

In our interconnected world, self-interest and social interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable....

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity.....

In Poor, Caleb Femi explores the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in 21st-century Peckham.... 

The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty....

In 1921, after six years of unrelenting war and revolution, Russia was in ruins. The economy had collapsed, the country was ravaged by disease and starvation claimed the lives of millions.... 

If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....

Anti-Social is the diary of a council worker whose job is to keep his community happy, or at least away from each other’s throats....

In this book, Yunus traces the development of the social business idea and explains its lessons for entrepreneurs, social activists, and policy makers....

While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty....

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prize-winning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns.... 

There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day....

Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....

London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams is the heartwarming true story of a little boy who had nothing but gained everything and proof that, sometimes, rags can be turned into riches....

This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty....