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Housing Wealth

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This entry describes housing wealth and the role it plays in household finance.

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Silos, P. (2018). Housing Wealth. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2928

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