Twenty years of housing policy: What's new, what's changed, what's ahead?

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 551-576

  Carr, James H ^a   Mulcahy, Michelle ^a  

^a National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial reform; Foreclosure; Green development; Housing market; Minority and women owned business; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957630841     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2010.510988     Document Type: Review

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