Why Do Housing Mobility Programs Fail in Moving Households to Better Neighborhoods?

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 188-209

  Kleit, Rachel Garshick ^a   Kang, Seungbeom ^a   Scally, Corianne Payton ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b HOUSERS   (United States)

Author keywords

housing instability; low income housing; mobility; vouchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930370168     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2015.1033440     Document Type: Article

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