Demographic variation in housing cost adjustments with US family migration

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 305-325

  Withers, Suzanne Davies ^a   Clark, William A V ^b   Ruiz, Tricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family migration; Housing affordability; Housing costs; Inter metropolitan migration; Regional white flight; US internal migration; Wives' employment

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; COST; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION MIGRATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50449110463     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.503     Document Type: Article

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