Homeownership: America's dream?

Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking Among Low-Income Households

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 218-256

  Bostic, Raphael W ^a   Lee, Kwan Ok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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