Blind faith in the free market: Urban Poverty, Residential Segregation, and Federal Housing Retrenchment, 1970-1995

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-31

  Gotham, Kevin Fox ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1998.tb00452.x     Document Type: Article

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