Satisfaction level with neighbourhoods in low-income public housing in Yemen

Property Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 230-242

  Djebarni, Ramdane ^a   Al Abed, Abdullah ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Data collection; Housing; Schemes; Yemen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986077138     PISSN: 02637472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02637470010348744     Document Type: Article

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