Rebuilding housing in New Orleans: The Road Home Program after the Hurricane Katrina disaster

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-99

  Green, Timothy F ^a   Olshansky, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordability; Construction building; New Orleans; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868153052     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2011.624530     Document Type: Article

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