Viewpoint: Slums, tenants and home-ownership: On blindness to the obvious

International Development Planning Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Gilbert, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING POLICY; RENT SEEKING; SHELTER; SOCIAL HOUSING; TENURE RELATIONS;

UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65349170261     PISSN: 14746743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.30.2.1     Document Type: Review

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