U.S. assisted housing programs and poverty deconcentration: A critical geographic review

Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?: A Policy Context

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 215-249

  Galster, George C ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84930974578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6695-2_11     Document Type: Chapter

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