The recent pervasive external effects of residential home foreclosure

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-265

  Wassmer, Robert W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreclosure; Housing; Neighborhood; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055046056     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2011.567290     Document Type: Article

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