Shopping therapy? Incentive payments and tenant behaviour: Lessons from underoccupation schemes in the United Kingdom

European Journal of Housing Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 289-311

  Pawson, Hal ^a   Sinclair, Stephen P ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Housing allowance; Housing benefit; Quasi markets; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL PROVISION; HOUSING POLICY; OCCUPATION; PROPERTY MARKET;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1642538230     PISSN: 14616718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616710310001630730     Document Type: Article

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