'Buy your home and feel in control' does home ownership achieve the empowerment of former tenants of social housing?

International Journal of Housing Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-61

  Kleinhans, Reinout ^a   Elsinga, Marja ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control; Empowerment; Home ownership; Housing associations; Self esteem; Social housing; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING ASSOCIATION; HOUSING POLICY; SOCIAL HOUSING;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 77249144552     PISSN: 14616718     EISSN: 14733269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616710903573757     Document Type: Article

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