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• Chicago Renters' Resource Guide (electronic edition, in English, Spanish and Chinese), by Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing (Chicago, Ill.) (PDF with commentary at lcbh.org)

• Chicago Renters' Resource Guide (electronic edition, in English, Spanish and Chinese), by Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing (Chicago, Ill.) (PDF with commentary at lcbh.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Better Homes in America: Plan Book for Demonstration Week, October 9 to 14, 1922, by Better Homes in America (Gutenberg text)

• The House of All Sorts (1944), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• California Tenants: A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities (electronic edition; c2010), by California Department of Consumer Affairs (HTML at ca.gov)

• China's Old Dwellings (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c2000), by Ronald G. Knapp (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Thing From the Lake (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1921), by Eleanor M. Ingram (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Housing Conditions in New Haven (New Haven, CT: Civic Federation of New Haven, Committee on Tenement House Conditions, 1913), by Carol Aronovici (page images at Harvard)

• Crumbling Dreams: What You Must Know Before Building or Buying a New House (or Condo), by Ruth S. Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

• The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction (6 volumes; London et a.: Blackie and Son, Ltd., ca. 1899), ed. by G. Lister Sutcliffe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org

• Handbook for Building Homes of Earth (prepared for US Agency for International Development; College Station, TX: Texas Transportation Institute, ca. 1962), by Lyle A. Wolfskill, Wayne A. Dunlap, and Bob M. Gallaway
  • PDF at usaid.gov
  • 1980 reprint; page images at HathiTrust

• Details for Conventional Wood Frame Construction (c2001), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)
• Your Dream Home: How to Build It for Less Than $3,500 (New York: W. H. Wise, 1950), by Hubbard H. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction (6 volumes; London et a.: Blackie and Son, Ltd., ca. 1899), ed. by G. Lister Sutcliffe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org

• Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga (c1993), by Jock Lauterer, contrib. by Maggie Lauterer (PDF at appstate.edu)

• The Home Mechanic: A Manual for Industrial Schools and Amateurs (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by John Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• The House Painter, or, Decorator's Companion (London: Thomas Kelly, 1841), by W. Mullinger Higgins (page images with commentary at Smithsonian)
• Interior Painting (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1910), by F. Maire (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Laws of Harmonious Colouring, Adapted to Interior Decorations, Manufactures, and Other Useful Purposes (London: W. S. Orr and Co.; Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1838), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archiuve.org)

• Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Supplement to Bicknell's Village Builder, Containing Eighteen Modern Designs for Country and Suburban Houses of Moderate Cost, With Elevations, Plans, Sections, and a Variety of Details (New York: A. J. Bicknell and Co, 1871) (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• More Other Homes and Garbage: Designs for Self-Sufficient Living (originally published 1981), by Jim Leckie, Gilbert M. Masters, Harry Whitehouse, and Lily Y. Young (PDF at Cornell)

• The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes (online edition, 2007), by Russell P. Leslie and Kathryn M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at RPI)

• Samoan House Building, Cooking, and Tattooing (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #15; Honolulu: The Museum, 1924), by E. S. Craighill Handy and Willowdean C. Handy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Security Handbook, by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at UCSC)

• The Bungalow Book (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles E. White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text)

• A Manual on School-Houses and Cottages for the People of the South, by C. Thurston Chase (page images at MOA)

• The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, and Villas; With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Modes of Warming and Ventilating (fifteenth thousand; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), by A. J. Downing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House: A Pocket Manual of Rural Architecture: or, How to Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings, by Daniel Harrison Jacques (page images at MOA)
• Rural Homes: or, Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life, With Original Plans, Designs, &c. (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by Gervase Wheeler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)

• When to Do House Cleaning Jobs (1972), by United States Department of Agriculture
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers

• Houseboat Days in China, by J. O. P. Bland (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
• Virginia: The Old Dominion, As Seen From its Colonial Waterway, the Historic River James (Boston: The Page Co., 1921), by Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
  • HTML and page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Regional Guidelines for Building Passive Energy Conserving Homes (Washington: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1978), by AIA Research Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by Frank J. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Washington, DC: Government Print. Office, 1881), by Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Modern Maya Houses: A Study of Their Archaeological Significance (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #502; 1938), by Robert Wauchope (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beauty for Ashes (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1914), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sybaris and Other Homes, by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)

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