The renter squeeze: Minority and low-income renters feel pressures from housing boom and weak labor market

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 755-770

  Loewentheil, Nathaniel ^a   Weller, Christian E ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; HOUSING MARKET; LABOR MARKET; LOW INCOME HOUSING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30344451664     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2005.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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