Employment accessibility among housing subsidy recipients

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 671-691

  Lens, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor markets; Low income housing; Public housing; Spatial mismatch; Vouchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902016210     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2014.905966     Document Type: Article

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