Homelessness as a Choice

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 420-434

  Parsell, Cameron ^a   Parsell, Mitch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Choice; Homelessness; Rough sleeping

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; HOMELESSNESS;

EID: 84871094583     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2012.667834     Document Type: Article

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