Housing finance trapped in a dilemma of perceptions: Affordability criteria for the urban poor in India questioned

Housing Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 821-838

  Smets, Peer ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; FINANCIAL PROVISION; HOUSING FINANCE; POVERTY; URBAN HOUSING;

INDIA;

EID: 0033451565     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673039982560     Document Type: Article

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