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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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

• 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 in the Netherlands)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012 (prepared for HUD by authors at the Urban Institute, 2013), by Margery Austin Turner, Rob Santos, Diane K. Levy, Douglas A. Wissoker, Claudia Aranda, and Rob Pitingolo (PDF with commentary at huduser.org)
• Urban Housing Segregation of Minorities in Western Europe and the United States (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), ed. by Elizabeth D. Huttman, Wim Blauw, and Juliet Saltman (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)

• The Wall Between (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958), by Anne Braden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urban Housing Segregation of Minorities in Western Europe and the United States (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), ed. by Elizabeth D. Huttman, Wim Blauw, and Juliet Saltman (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)

• Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976), by Cresson H. Kearny (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1986), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (2009), by National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (U.S.) and National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) (PDF at nationalhomeless.org)
• The Ways of the Hobo (6th edition; Erie, PA: A-No.1 Pub. Co., c1915), by A-No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (2009), by National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (U.S.) and National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) (PDF at nationalhomeless.org)

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

• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (2009), by National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (U.S.) and National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) (PDF at nationalhomeless.org)

• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)
• 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)

• Supervisory Skills for Housing Managers: Instructor's Guide (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research and Temple University Center for Social Policy and Community Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supervisory Skills for Housing Managers: Participant's Workbook (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research and Temple University Center for Social Policy and Community Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy (Sausalito, CA: PoliPoint Press, c2009), by Dean Baker (PDF at deanbaker.net)

• Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012 (prepared for HUD by authors at the Urban Institute, 2013), by Margery Austin Turner, Rob Santos, Diane K. Levy, Douglas A. Wissoker, Claudia Aranda, and Rob Pitingolo (PDF with commentary at huduser.org)

• Colonias, A Third World Within Our Borders: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Eagle Pass, TX, May 15, 1989 (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)

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