The unavailability of information on insurance unavailability: Insurance redlining and the absence of geocoded disclosure data

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 347-372

  Squires, Gregory D ^a   O'Connor, Sally ^d   Silver, Josh ^d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c National Community Reinvestment Coalition   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Discrimination; Insurance; Underserved

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040154244     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2001.9521409     Document Type: Article

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