Racist housing practices as a precursor to uneven neighborhood change in a post-industrial city

Housing Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 186-208

  Sadler, Richard Casey ^a   Lafreniere, Don J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; property condition; residential mobility

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HOUSING CONDITIONS; NEIGHBORHOOD; POVERTY; RACISM; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

FLINT; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84969142038     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1181724     Document Type: Article

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