The New Redlining

Why the Poor Pay More: How to Stop Predatory Lending

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-23

  Squires, Gregory D ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Woodstock Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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