Section 8: The time for fundamental program change?

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 805-834

  Grigsby, William G ^a   Bourassa, Steven C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal policy; Rental housing; Section 8 housing programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044463746     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 10511482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2004.9521522     Document Type: Article

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