Old Ways, New Impacts: Race, Residential Patterns, and the Home Foreclosure Crisis in the American South

Professional Geographer

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 390-402

  Lichtenstein, Bronwen ^a   Weber, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

American South; home foreclosure; racial disparities

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; ETHNIC MINORITY; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MORTGAGE LENDING; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC ACCESS; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN HOUSING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902365929     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2013.799993     Document Type: Article

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