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In-Text Citation: (Haizzan et al., 2018)
To Cite this Article: Haizzan, Y. M., Firdaus, R. B. R., Samsurijan, M. S., Latiff, A. R. A., Singh, P. S. J., Jaafar, M. H., & Vadevelu, K. (2018). Urban Poverty and Housing: Social Work Issues. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(9), 1111–1118.
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