Comment on William G. Grigsby and Steven C. Bourassa's "Section 8: The time for fundamental program change?"

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 835-849

  Sard, Barbara ^a  

^a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal policy; Rental housing; Section 8 housing programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044462637     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 10511482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2004.9521523     Document Type: Article

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