Housing as a means of asset accumulation: A good strategy for the poor?

Assets for the Poor: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 232-268

  Denton, Nancy A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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