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• 10 years in a London slum (Skeffington & Son, 1929), by Desmond Lionel Morse-Boycott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jipping street; childhood in a London slum (Harper & brothers, 1928), by Kathleen Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The housing problem in London. (London Reform Union, 1899), by C. M. Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• By the King a proclamation against inmates and multitudes of dwellers in strait roomes and places in and about the cities of London, and for the rasing and pulling downe of certaine new erected buildings. (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Anno Dom. 1603), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Whereas in and by the additional act of Parliament for rebuilding the city of London, it is enacted, that the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen shall be and are thereby impowered and required to cause all and every the sheds, shops and other buildings ... to be taken down and removed ... ([London] : Printed by Andrew Clark ..., [1673]), by City of London (England) and Robert Hanson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• This court taking into their consideration, that the utmost time appointed for taking down and removing all such sheds, shops, and other like buildings, which have been erected since the late dismal fire ... ([London] : Printed by Andrew Clark ..., [1674]), by City of London (England) and William Hooker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Prospects for rehabilitation; a demonstration study of housing in Morningside Heights, New York City. ([New York], 1960), by New York (State). Temporary State Housing Rent Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sub-employment in the slums ... A survey. ([Washington, 1967), by United States Department of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Housing reform and community welfare : for use by social study classes in churches and Sunday schools -- ([Philadelphia, 1915), by Inter-Church Federation of Philadelphia. Commission on Social Service and Bernard J. Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Municipal housing (League for Industrial Democracy, 1932), by Helen L. Alfred and League for Industrial Democracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slum clearance and low-cost housing in Alaska : hearings ... Seventy-sixth Congress third session on H.R. 8884, a bill to authorize the legislature of the territory of Alaska to create a public corporate authority to undertake slum clearance and projects to provide dwelling accommodations for families of low income and to issue bonds and other obligations of the authority for such purposes. April 3. 1940. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1940), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Territories (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is the market value of "improved" land in slums? (Urban Land Institute, 1947), by Clarence W. Beatty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report upon a sanitary inspection of certain tenement-house districts of Boston. (Rockwell and Churchill, 1889), by Dwight Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workable program for urban renewal : Kansas City, Missouri ; Determination and recertification. ([Kansas City, Mo.], 1956), by Kansas City (Mo.). City Plan Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Review of slum clearance and urban renewal activities of the San Francisco regional office, Housing and Home Finance Agency, October, 1959. Report to the Congress of the United States by the Comptroller General of the United States. (Washington, 1960), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• How localities can develop a workable program for urban renewal. (Washington, 1956), by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slum clearance and low-cost housing in Alaska : hearings ... Seventy-sixth Congress third session on H.R. 8884, a bill to authorize the legislature of the territory of Alaska to create a public corporate authority to undertake slum clearance and projects to provide dwelling accommodations for families of low income and to issue bonds and other obligations of the authority for such purposes. April 3. 1940. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1940), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Territories (page images at HathiTrust)

• Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by David Nemer (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Report. (Sacramento, 1940), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Housing and Slum Clearance Fact Finding Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Community redevelopment in California]; partial report (Senate of the State of California, 1950), by California. Legislature. Joint Interim Committee on Community Redevelopment and Housing Problems (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bowery Tales: George's Mother; Maggie (London: W. Heinemann, 1900), by Stephen Crane
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• A Child of the Jago (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1897), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child of the Jago (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• The Clarion (1914), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, illust. by William Dodge Stevens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Faith Hope, child of the slums. (Edited and published by G.O. Tubby, 1909), by D. R. C., Gertrude Ogden Tubby, and Mail and Express Job Print (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flight of an arrow and other stories (Kelly & Walsh, 1908), by D. R. C. (page images at HathiTrust)
• O Cortiço (in Portuguese), by Aluísio Azevedo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Janet; or, The Christmas Stockings, by Louise Élise Gibbons (Gutenberg ebook)

• State and the slums (Published at the central offices of the Liberty and Property Defence League, 4, Westminster Chambers, 1884), by E. S. Robertson and Liberty and Property Defence League (page images at HathiTrust)

• The problem of the Dublin slums. (Dublin, 1913), by John Robert O'Connell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kasō shakai kenkyū (Bungadō, 1920), by Tokusaburō Hachihama (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Wild Rose Time (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1894), by Amanda M. Douglas, illust. by John Goss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Down in the slums (John Heywood, 1885), by Delver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robin of Sun Court, by Eleanora H. Stooke, illust. by Isabel Watkin (Gutenberg ebook)

• A tentative five year plan for slum clearance and low-cost housing in New Jersey (The Authority, 1934), by New Jersey. State Housing Authority (page images at HathiTrust)

• New York state assistance in slum clearance, urban renewal and housing. ([New York], 1958), by New York (State). Division of Housing (page images at HathiTrust)

• The cost of slums in Newark. (Housing authority of the city of Newark, 1946), by Housing Authority of the City of Newark (New Jersey), Sara Shuman, and Jay Rumney (page images at HathiTrust)

• The problem of home missions : the city (Methodist Episcopal Church, Missionary Society, 1935), by Edgar James Helms (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Revista CIS (in Portuguese and Spanish; 2008-) (partial serial archives)

• Tuckahoe midtown renewal project : eligibility and relocation report. ([New York], 1960), by Brown and Anthony (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Washington: G. P. O., 1935), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Our urban environment and our most endangered people;" [a report to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (Washington, 1972), by United States. Task Force on Environmental Problems of the Inner City (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our housing jungle--and your pocketbook; how to turn our growing slums into assets. (University Publishers, 1960), by Oscar H. Steiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Housing conditions in urban poverty areas (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by Allen D. Manvel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The enduring ghetto; sources and readings (Lippincott, 1973), by David R. Goldfield and James B. Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban renewel. (Scarecrow Press, 1959), by Reuel Hemdahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abandoned housing research: a compendium. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• CDBG and UDAG displacement hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One-hundredth Congress, second session, September 29, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O., 1988), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban renewal provisions of the Housing act of 1949 : as amended through 1956, and excerpts from other Federal laws authorizing federal assistance to slum clearance and urban redevelopment and urban renewal. (Office of the Administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1956), by Estados Unidos and United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• CDBG and UDAG displacement : hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One-hundredth Congress, second session, September 29, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• The human side of urban renewal; a study of the attitude changes, produced by neighborhood rehabilitation (Fight-Blight, 1958), by Martin Millspaugh and Gurney Breckenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operation of the urban property protection and reinsurance program. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first session ... March 20, 1969 [and] on operation of Illinois fair plan, Chicago, Ill., April 21 and 22, 1969. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The human side of urban renewal (Washburn, 1960), by Martin Millspaugh and Vivian Gurney Breckenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sub-employment in the slums ... A survey. ([Washington, 1967), by United States Department of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slum prevention through conservation and rehabilitation (Subcommittee on Urban Redevelopment, Rehabilitation, and Conservation, Advisory Committee on Government Housing Policies and Programs, 1953), by Jack M. Siegel and C. William Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memorandum on urban renewal (The Council, 1958), by Citizens Research Council of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of property taxes and urban blight; report to U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development. (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by Inc Arthur D. Little and United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slums and blight --a disease of urban life (Urban Renewal Administration, Housing and Home Finance Agency :, 1956), by James W. Follin and United States. Urban Renewal Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Service charges on federal slum clearance projects. : Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, seventy-fourth Congress, second session on H.R. 10551, H.R. 10554, and S. 3247. (U.S. G.P.O., 1936), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means (page images at HathiTrust)
• Municipal housing (League for Industrial Democracy, 1932), by Helen L. Alfred and League for Industrial Democracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Program for community improvement (workable program). (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1960), by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix G : definitions and causes [of slums] (G.P.O.], 1931), by John Ihlder, Charlotte Rumbold, Bleeker Marquette, United States. Committee on Blighted Areas and Slums, and D.C.) President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (1931 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix C : better housing through rational taxation (G.P.O.], 1931), by Buttenheim. Harold S., United States. Committee on Blighted Areas and Slums, and D.C.) President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (1931 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slums and social insecurity : an appraisal of the effectiveness of housing policies in helping to eliminate poverty in the United States (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Division of Research and Statistics, 1966), by Alvin Louis Schorr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slum clearance : report of a subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Housing, Congress of the United States, pursuant to H. Con. Res. 104 (80th Congress). (U.S. G.P.O., 1948), by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Housing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban renewal provisions of the Housing act of 1949, as amended through August 1955, and excerpts from other federal laws authorizing federal assistance to slum clearance and urban redevelopment and urban renewal. (Office of the administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1955), by United States and United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban renewal, title 1, Housing Act of 1949, as amended (Washington, 1955), by United States. Urban Renewal Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• How localities can develop a workable program for urban renewal. (Washington, 1955), by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arresting slums through private enterprise (Shinner Foundation, 1956), by E. G. Shinner and Shinner Foundation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How localities can develop a workable program for urban renewal. (Washington, 1956), by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

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