Housing Liberalisation and Gentrification: The Social Effects of Tenure Conversions in Amsterdam

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 140-160

  Boterman, Willem R ^a   van Gent, Wouter P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Displacement; Gentrification; Housing liberalisation; Housing policy; Tenure conversion; Urban transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897868836     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12050     Document Type: Article

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