Struggling to stay out of high-poverty neighborhoods: Housing choice and locations in moving to opportunity's first decade

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 383-427

  de Briggs, Xavier Souza ^a   Comey, Jennifer ^b   Weismann, Gretchen ^c  

^a Office of Management and Budget   (United States)

^b URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Department of Housing and Community Development ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Low income housing; Markets; Neighborhood; Vouchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957641656     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511481003788745     Document Type: Article

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