Banking the unbanked: Connecting residents of social housing to the financial mainstream

Housing and Social Change: East-West Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 199-220

  Stegman, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84906192014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203402634     Document Type: Chapter

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