Housing Vacancy and the Shrinking City: Trends and Policies in the UK and the City of Liverpool

Housing Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 499-519

  Couch, Chris ^a   Cocks, Matthew ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

housing regeneration; Housing vacancy; shrinking cities

Indexed keywords

HOUSING CONDITIONS; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING POLICY; POLICY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; TREND ANALYSIS; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN POPULATION;

ENGLAND; LIVERPOOL [ENGLAND]; LIVERPOOL [LIVERPOOL (DST)]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84876995929     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.760029     Document Type: Article

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