Affording Housing at the Expense of Health: Exploring the Housing and Neighborhood Strategies of Poor Families

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 921-946

  Hernández, Diana ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

family health; household living arrangements; poverty welfare; qualitative; single parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962026472     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14530970     Document Type: Article

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