Foreclosing on the american dream? the financial consequences of low-income homeownership

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 707-742

  Santiago, Anna Maria ^a   Galster, George C ^a   Romana, Santiago San ^a   Tucker, Cristina M ^a   Kaiser, Angela A ^a   Grace, Rebecca A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assets; Black; Defaults; Homeownership; Indicators; Latino; Low income; Wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957667894     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2010.506194     Document Type: Article

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