For more information about the housing industry, consult Finding Industry Information: A Research Guide. For articles about housing, use the "Periodical Articles" tab.
Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown by 
Housing Markets & Planning Policy by The following are a few examples of books about housing available from the University Libraries. For more materials, use the Libraries' online catalog linked on the left.
Affordable Housing Finance, by Kim Hawtrey. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Covers new approaches to funding housing in the US, Australia and the UK. [ULIB HD 7287 H37 2009]
Building Prosperity :The Centrality of Housing in Economic Development, by Anna Tibaijuka. London: Earthscan, 2009. The looks at housing as a driver of economic growth at the local,national and global levels, using numerous case studies to support her arguments. [ULIB HT 166 T4543 2009]
Encyclopedia of Housing, Willem Van Vliet, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. Contains articles covering nearly all aspects of housing. This volume is a good place to get an overview of specific housing issues. [DEWEY and ULIB REFERENCE HD 7287 E53 1998]
Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model, by William R. Morrish, Susanne Schindler and Katie Swenson. San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 2009. Contains information about award-winning designs for single and multi-family units and multiple dwelling developments. [ULIB NA 7126 M67X 2009]
Housing Policy in the United States, by Alex F. Schwartz. NY: Routledge, 2010. Provides a thorough introduction to domestic residential housing policy. [DEWEY HD 7293 S373 2010]
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation, by Margery Austin Turner, Susan J. Popkin, and Lynette Rawlings. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2009. A selection of essays discussing a variety of approaches to transforming public housing with the goal of greater racial and social class integration. [DEWEY HD 7288.78 U5 T855 2009]
Public Housing that Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, by Nicholas Dagen Bloom. Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Examines the success of the New York City Housing Authority as a model for other cities. [RESERVES ULIB HD 7288.78 U52 N726 2008]
A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda, edited by Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006. Explores complex issues at the heart of the housing crisis, including poverty, racial and class discrimination, and legislative treatment. [DEWEY HD 7293 R46 2006]
