Housing Research Resources: Home

Housing Research Resources is a selective bibliographic research guide to print and digital social housing  literature at UC Berkeley. Included are basic research tools, international, American, and local sources, and strategies for finding materials. For additional assistance, please consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff.

Here is a list of UC-Berkeley libraries that support housing research.

California Specific Sites

Print Resources

• Community Development Resource Guide. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. 2000.
• Meaning and measurement in comparative housing research. Stephens, Mark and Norris, Michelle eds. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014. 
• The Sage Handbook of Housing Studies. Clark, William, Gibb, Kenneth, Clapham David F., eds. London: SAGE, 2012.

• The Encyclopedia of housing. Van Vliet, Willem ed., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.
• The Encyclopedia of housing. Carswell, Andrew T., ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE, 2012. 
• Residential Development Handbook. Schmitz, Adrianne. Washington, D.C: Urban Land Institute, 2004.
• Urban projects manual: a guide to the preparation of projects for new development  and upgrading relevant to low income groups, based on the approach used for the Ismailia Demonstration Projects, Egypt. Davidson, Forbes and Payne, Geoffrey eds. Liverpool: Liverpool Univerity Press for International Development, 2000. 
• International encyclopedia of housing and home.Volumes 1-7. Smith, Susan J. and Elsinga, Marja eds Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2012.

 International 

United States

Hints for searcing in Oskicat or Melvyl. 

• General guides to using The Library's catalogs are available online.
• Use combined searches, e.g., [subject] squatter# AND [subject] housing policy.
• Start in Melvyl for "fuzzy" searching and complete campus library coverage.
• Most headings may be modified with a place name.

Abandonment of property

Accessory apartments

Affordable housing: use low-income housing

City planning & redevelopment law

Community development, Urban

Congregate housing

Discrimination in housing

Gated communities

Gentrification

Home ownership

Housing--[place name]--Finance

Housing authorities

Housing development

Housing, cooperative

Housing--Finance

Housing forecasting

Housing--policy

Housing--Law and legislation

Housing policy

Housing policy--International

Housing rehabilitation

Housing subsidies

Land use, Urban

NIMBY syndrome

Public housing

Public housing--developing countries

Public housing--Government policy

Public housing--Law and legsistlation--[place name]--Finance

Real property--Valuation

Refugee camps

Rental housing

Self-help housing

Shared housing 

Shelters for the homeless

Slums

Squatter settlements

Squatters

Urban homesteading

Zoning law