Housing affordability and Toronto's rental market: Perspectives from the housing careers of Jamaican, Polish and Somali newcomers

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 183-196

  Murdie, Robert A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordability; Housing career; Immigrants; Rental housing; Toronto

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; HOUSING MARKET; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; RENTAL SECTOR;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; TORONTO;

EID: 0942267271     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090310018923     Document Type: Article

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