Tracking land ownership in self-help homestead subdivisions in the United States: The case of Texas "colonias"

Land Use Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 165-178

  Ward, Peter M ^a   Carew, Jeremiah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Dept of Sociology and at the Lyndon B   (United States)

Author keywords

Absentee ownership; Land tile searches; Low income subdivisions; Methodology; Texas

Indexed keywords

LAND TENURE; METHODOLOGY; PLANNING METHOD; RURAL PLANNING; SELF HELP;

UNITED STATES;

COLONIA;

EID: 0035017189     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8377(01)00008-4     Document Type: Article

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