Housing subsidies

The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 397-418

  Yates, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84893011476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781446247570.n21     Document Type: Chapter

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