Comfort and burden: The changing meaning of home for owners at-risk of foreclosure

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 421-437

  McCormack, Karen ^a  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreclosure; Housing; Ontological security; Place attachment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875443077     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/SYMB.32     Document Type: Article

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