Socially excluding housing support to homeless substance misusers: Two Swedish case studies of special category housing

International Journal of Social Welfare

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 162-171

  Blid, Mats ^a   Gerdner, Arne ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Homeless; Housing support; Social exclusion; Special category housing; Substance misuse; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644972890     PISSN: 13696866     EISSN: 14682397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2006.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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