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A Renter’s Tax Credit to Curtail the Affordable Housing Crisis
Sara Kimberlin, Laura Tach, Christopher Wimer
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 131-160; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.07
Sara Kimberlin
aAffiliate of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and a senior policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center
Laura Tach
bAssistant professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University
Christopher Wimer
cCo-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University
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