When only a house makes a home: How home selection matters in the residential mobility decisions of lower-income, Inner-City African American families

Social Service Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 264-294

  Wood, Holly ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84902970639     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/676407     Document Type: Article

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