No. 276 / February 1996
Brave New World
Housing and homelessness
Housing and homelessness
Letter
from this month's editors
- Brave new world
David Ransom looks at what life on the margins has to tell us about the shape of things to come.
- Street talk
Words from Thuli, Scott, Max and Alain in the wilderness of Johannesburg, Los Angeles, London and Paris.
- Caged
The Hong Kong economic miracle looks like a mirage if you're old, says Ho Hei Wah.
- Scared of our own kids
How the street children of Brazil are resisting the culture of domination - Anthony Swift reports.
- Smoke gets in your throat
Nick Hall describes what intermediate technology can offer the women of the Maasai, whose lifestyle is under threat.
- HOMELESSNESS - THE FACTS
- Foundations of our lives
Rethinking the role of housing, with campaigner Jai Sen in Calcutta.
- Street City
Murray MacAdam discovers what homeless people have made out of a warehouse in Toronto.
- Simply - the ideal home
- Sense and sanitation
The pavement people of Bombay need decent toilets and, reports Sheela Patel, they now know how to set about getting them.
- World exclusive!
Tessa Swithinbank follows the street-paper movement as it spreads around the globe.
- Action directory
- Letters
- Letter from Moscow
- Update
- The NI Interview with Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim
- Reviews: plus Sembene classic
- Curiosities
- Endpiece by Brandon Astor Jones
- Country profile: Vietnam
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