Opposition to Affordable Housing in the USA: Debate Framing and the Responses of Local Actors

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 107-130

  Nguyen, Mai Thi ^a   Basolo, Victoria ^b   Tiwari, Abhishek ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable Housing; Framing; Not In My Backyard (NIMBY); Opposition

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; DECISION MAKING; HOUSING MANAGEMENT; NOT IN MY BACK YARD RESPONSE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879150038     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: 16512278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2012.667833     Document Type: Article

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