Amenity-based housing affordability indexes

Real Estate Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 705-746

  Fisher, Lynn M ^a   Pollakowski, Henry O ^a   Zabel, Jeffrey ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73149095774     PISSN: 10808620     EISSN: 15406229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6229.2009.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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