Demobilization of the individualistic bias: Housing market discrimination as a contributor to labor market and economic inequality

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 609, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 200-214

  Squires, Gregory D ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Exclusionary zoning; Segregation; Steering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845617670     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716206294953     Document Type: Review

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