The low income housing tax credit and racial segregation

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 443-473

  Horn, Keren M ^a   O'Regan, Katherine M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Low income housing; Minorities; Neighborhood; Nonprofit sector; Tax credit

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055078625     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2011.591536     Document Type: Article

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