Public housing as control: Spatial policy of settling immigrants in Israeli development towns

Housing Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 523-537

  Tzfadia, Erez ^a  

^a SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Development towns; Ethno national logic; Immigration; Public housing

Indexed keywords

HOUSING POLICY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL HOUSING;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33745323821     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673030600709058     Document Type: Review

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