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• 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)

• Bowery Tales: George's Mother; Maggie (London: W. Heinemann, 1900), by Stephen Crane
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)

• In Wild Rose Time (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1894), by Amanda M. Douglas, illust. by John Goss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Be it Ever So Tumbled: The Story of a Suburban Slum (Detroit: Citizen's Housing and Planning Council of Detroit, 1940), by Marvel Daines (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900), by Jacob A. Riis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Crime of El Fanguito: An Open Letter to President Truman on Puerto Rico (New York: New Century Publishers, 1948), by William Z. Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Washington: G. P. O., 1935), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe (London: UCL Press, c2020), ed. by Udo Grashoff (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Squatter Settlements: The Problem and the Opportunity (Washington: Division of International Affairs, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 1966), by Charles Abrams
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at usaid.gov

• Cracking the Movement: Squatting Beyond the Media (1994), by Adilkno, trans. by Laura Martz (HTML at networkcultures.org)

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

• Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe (London: UCL Press, c2020), ed. by Udo Grashoff (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Willem Van Vliet, Elizabeth D. Huttman, and Sylvia Fleis Fava (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Question, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Taking a Stand on Housing, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Planning the Neighborhood (first book in the Standards for Heathful Housing series; Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1948), by American Public Health Association Committee on the Hygiene of Housing (page images at HathiTrust)

• There's No Place Like Home: The Politics of Women's Housing (ACSJC occasional paper #1; Surry Hills, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1987), by Brian Cosgrove (PDF in Australia)

• There's No Place Like Home: The Politics of Women's Housing (ACSJC occasional paper #1; Surry Hills, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1987), by Brian Cosgrove (PDF in Australia)

• There's No Place Like Home: The Politics of Women's Housing (ACSJC occasional paper #1; Surry Hills, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1987), by Brian Cosgrove (PDF in Australia)

• Housing and the Future of Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1963), by Catherine Bauer Wurster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homelessness in California (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2001), by John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky (PDF at Berkeley)

• Homelessness in California (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2001), by John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky (PDF at Berkeley)

• New Homes for Old: Public Housing in Europe and America (Headline Books #22; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1939), by William V. Reed and Elizabeth Ogg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lodging Houses Acts: The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 1851, With Plain Directions and Forms for Putting Them Into Execution (London: Shaw and Sons, 1851), by Great Britain, ed. by Robert A. Strange (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beauty for Ashes (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1914), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), ed. by Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)

• Bulletin of the American Home Economics Association, by American Home Economics Association (partial serial archives)

• Statistica Cladirilor si a Locuintelor din Romania, Intocmita pe Baza Recensamantului General al Populatiunii din 19 Decembrie 1912-1 Ianuarie 1913 (in Romanian; Bucharest: C. Gobl, 1920), by Romania Direcțiunea Generală a Statisticei, contrib. by Leonida Colescu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Introduction to Housing: Facts and Principles (Washington: United States Housing Authority, 1940), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Washington: G. P. O., 1935), 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 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)
• New Homes for Old: Public Housing in Europe and America (Headline Books #22; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1939), by William V. Reed and Elizabeth Ogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planned-Unit Development with a Homes Association (Washington: GPO, 1964), by United States Federal Housing Administration (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)

• Socioeconomic Renovation in Viet Nam: The Origin, Evolution, and Impact of Doi Moi, ed. by Peter Boothroyd and Pham Xuan Nam (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless, by Charles Kroloff (HTML at earthsystems.org)

• Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), ed. by Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)
• Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Willem Van Vliet, Elizabeth D. Huttman, and Sylvia Fleis Fava (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)
• The ABC of Co-Operative Housing (New York: Co-Operative League, c1924), by Agnes D. Warbasse (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1958), by Morton Grodzins (page images at HathiTrust)
• People vs. Property: Race Restrictive Covenants in Housing (Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1947), by Herman H. Long and Charles Spurgeon Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caucasians Only: The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases (third printing; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), by Clement E. Vose (multiple formats at Google)

• Kupsnickaren (in Swedish; 1919), by Alexander Lundgren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Artificial Brooding (Bulletin #139; Moscow, ID: University of Idaho, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1925), by Raymond T. Parkhurst
  • page images at Idaho
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, by Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and Richard W. Lord, contrib. by Eleanor Roosevelt (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.