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Original Scholarship - Empirical

A narrative-based exploration of aging, precariousness and housing instability among low-income older adults in Canada

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Pages 587-601 | Received 08 Dec 2020, Accepted 01 Apr 2021, Published online: 10 Jun 2021

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