The Geography of Metropolitan Opportunity: A Reconnaissance and Conceptual Framework

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 7-43

  Galster, George C ^a   Killen, Sean P ^a  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84973021915     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.1995.9521180     Document Type: Article

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