Decomposing Canada's growing housing affordability problem: Do city differences matter?

Urban Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-149

  Skaburskis, Andrejs ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; INCOME; INVESTMENT; OCCUPATION; URBAN ECONOMY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0842301372     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000155713     Document Type: Article

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