To buy or not to buy: determinants of home ownership among Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 40-52

  Owusu, Thomas Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHANAIAN PEOPLE; HOME OWNERSHIP; HOUSING TENURE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA; ONTARIO; TORONTO;

EID: 0031873173     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1998.tb01551.x     Document Type: Article

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