Housing Inequality in the United States: Explaining the White-Minority Disparities in Homeownership

Housing Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-26

  DeSilva, Sanjaya ^a   Elmelech, Yuval ^a  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnicity; Homeownership; immigration; race

Indexed keywords

HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING MARKET; IMMIGRATION; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858323114     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.628641     Document Type: Article

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