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• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Oonagh McDonald (HTML with commentary at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)
• Studies on Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996), by United States General Accounting Office, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States Department of the Treasury, and United States Congressional Budget Office (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)

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

• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point, A Community History (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), by Jane Roessner (multiple formats at Northeastern)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Evictions and the Right to Housing: Experience from Canada, Chile, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, and South Korea, ed. by Antonio Azuela, Emilio Duhau, and Enrique Ortiz (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• 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 Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Cities (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Lawrence Halprin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
• How Cities Can Grow Old Gracefully: Subcommittee on the City of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, First Session (prepared for the committee; Washington: GPO, 1977), ed. by Henry S. Reuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Parks: Being Two Papers Read Before the American Social Science Association in 1870 and 1880, Entitled, Respectively, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, and A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (1902), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google; US access only)

• Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jon C. Teaford (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making (2002), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City (c2006), ed. by Rutherford H. Platt (PDF files at umass.edu)

• The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1993), by John D. Fairfield (PDF at Ohio State)

• The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954 (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 1971), by Joseph L. Arnold (PDF at Ohio State)

• Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s (originally published 2001; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Carolyn S. Loeb (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s (originally published 2001; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Carolyn S. Loeb (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), by Diane Shaw (multiple formats at Project MUSE)

• Urban Land (published by the Urban Land Institute since the 1940s; articles from 2010 onward online) (partial serial archives)

• Planning and Zoning in the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1961), by Beverley J. Pooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• Planned-Unit Development with a Homes Association (Washington: GPO, 1964), by United States Federal Housing Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)

• Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Fordham University Press; Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, c2006), ed. by Roger G. Panetta, contrib. by Kenneth T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Fordham University Press; Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, c2006), ed. by Roger G. Panetta, contrib. by Kenneth T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Ann Durkin Keating (PDF at Ohio State)

• Cities (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Lawrence Halprin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The City Plan of Kenosha, Wisconsin (St. Louis: H. Bartholomew, 1925), by Harland Bartholomew (page images at Wisconsin)
• Madison, A Model City, by John Nolen (searchable HTML at Wisconsin)

• The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1993), by John D. Fairfield (PDF at Ohio State)

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