Housing Programs Fail to Deliver on Neighborhood Quality, Reexamined

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 463-496

  McClure, Kirk ^a   Johnson, Bonnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

low income housing; mobility; neighborhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027936487     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2014.944201     Document Type: Article

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