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Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions

Jennifer Girouard
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (1) 126-144; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.06
Jennifer Girouard
aAssistant professor of sociology at the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Study at Emerson College, United States
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