Is breaking up still hard to do? - Policy retrenchment and housing policy change in a path dependent context

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 241-257

  Nielsen, Birgitta Gomez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Everyday retrenchment; Path dependency; Universal housing policy regimes

Indexed keywords

HOUSING POLICY; POLICY REFORM; SOCIAL HOUSING;

SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 77955170647     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090903326486     Document Type: Article

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