Home Foreclosures and Neighborhood Crime Dynamics

Housing Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 380-406

  Williams, Sonya ^a   Galster, George ^b   Verma, Nandita ^a  

^a MDRC   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crime; Foreclosures; Granger causality; multilevel growth models; neighborhoods

Indexed keywords

CRIME; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; GROWTH MODELING; HOUSING MARKET; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN HOUSING;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896546061     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.803041     Document Type: Article

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