Fostering low-income homeownership through individual development accounts: A Longitudinal, randomized experiment

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 711-739

  Grinstein Weiss, Michal ^a   Lee, Jung Sook ^b   Greeson, Johanna K P ^a   Han, Chang Keun ^c   Yeo, Yeong H ^a   Irish, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assets; Homeownership; Programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 66349137389     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2008.9521653     Document Type: Article

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