The Financial Crisis Hits Home: Foreclosures and Asset Exhaustion in Boston

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 738-764

  Thomas, Hannah ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assets; foreclosure; homeownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886942755     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2013.828766     Document Type: Article

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