Injustices of engagement: Issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities

Housing Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 541-556

  Temple, Bogusia ^a   Steele, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language; Methodology; Minority ethnic communities; Needs assessments

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ETHNIC MINORITY; HOUSING POLICY; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 3843062529     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0267303042000221954     Document Type: Article

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