Housing support for the “undeserving”: Moral hazard, fires, and laissez-faire in Hong Kong

Ethnographies of Social Support

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 17-37

  Smart, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 85014581895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137330970_2     Document Type: Chapter

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