Homeless : poverty and place in urban America, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central) by 
How to House the Homeless, Russell Sage Foundation, 2010 (via Ebook Central) by FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless)
Housing Rights Watch (“an interdisciplinary European network of associations, lawyers and academics from different countries, who are committed to promoting the right to housing”)
Kappe Library research guides on “Emergency settlements”, “Public spaces”, “Residential buildings”, and "Urban design"
National Alliance to End Homelessness (Research, policy, and implementation)
National Coalition for the Homeless (“people who are currently experiencing homelessness or have formerly experienced homelessness must be actively involved in all of our work.”)
A Bridge Home, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (centralized dashboard with links to ongoing projects and related data.) A Bridge Home was initiated in 2018 by the City of L.A. to build transitional housing in each of L.A.’s 15 council districts, generating opposition in Koreatown (Wilshire Community Coalition), Venice, Sherman Oaks, etc.)
California State Auditor, Homelessness in California, April 2018 (PDF available via CSA)
DTLA emergency shelters include Cardinal Manning Center, 231 Winston St, Los Angeles, CA 90013; Emmanuel Baptist Rescue Mission, 530 E 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (since 1953); Los Angeles Mission, 303 E 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013; Midnight Mission, 601 San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90014 (since 1914); Union Rescue Mission, 545 San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (programs include Hope Gardens Family Center in Sylmar)
“Escape routes: meta-analysis of homelessness in L.A.” Los Angeles Economic Roundtable, April 24, 2018
“Interactive tool for visualizing LA homelessness data,” Los Angeles Economic Roundtable, September 1, 2018
Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) Union of extremely low-income and homeless people in downtown and South Central L.A., "to help people dealing with poverty create and discover opportunities" and "to ensure we have voice, power and opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting us".
L.A. Poverty Department (Community arts organization focused on “the idea that Skid Row could be improved, by embracing and nourishing the powers of the people who live there.” Projects include the Skid Row History Museum & Archive.)
Los Angeles Economic Roundtable (Research on homelessness)
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homeslessness, Report and Recommentations, December 2018
Los Angeles Times editorial board, Our national disgrace: homelessness in the City of Angels, Heyday, HV4506.L67O87 2018
Marr, Matthew D., Better must come : exiting homelessness in two global cities, Cornell University Press, 2015 (ebook available via Ebook Central; On “transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous cities of the global economy, Los Angeles and Tokyo”)
Ruddick, Susan M, Young and homeless In Hollywood: Mapping the social identities, Routledge, HV4506.L67R83 1996
Street Symphony (“places social justice at the heart of music making by creating authentic, powerful engagements between professional and emerging artists and communities disenfranchised by homelessness and incarceration in Los Angeles County”)
Wolch, Jennifer R., Malign neglect : homelessness in an American city, Jossey-Bass Publishers, HV4506.L67W65 1993
A Bridge Home (City of L.A. 2018 initiative to build transitional housing in each of L.A.’s 15 council districts, generating opposition in Koreatown (Wilshire Community Coalition), Venice, Sherman Oaks, etc.)
Amster, Randall, Street people and the contested realms of public space, LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2004 (via Ebook Central)
Armborst, Tobias, et al., The arsenal of exclusion & inclusion, Actar, HT167.A84 2017
Faraji, Sara-Laure, et al., “Effect of emergency winter homeless shelters on property crime,” 2018 (Study focused on Vancouver; PDF available via University of Pennsylvania)
Gilmartin, Wendy, “The homeless want more than housing: for the residents of L.A.’s Skid Row, public space is a priority,” Landscape Architecture, October 2016, p.58, 60
Hawkins, Dae Shik Kim, “An app for ejecting the homeless,” The Atlantic blog, June 28, 2018 (On Seattle)
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia & Renia Ehrenfeucht, Sidewalks: conflict and negotiation over public space, MIT Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)
Selbin, Jeffrey, et al., “Homeless exclusion districts: how California Business Improvement Districts use policy advocacy and policing practices to exclude homeless people from public space,” U.C. Berkeley Public Law Research Paper, August 22, 2018 (PDF available via SSRN)
Simpson, Deane, et al. (editors), The city between freedom and security: contested public spaces in the 21st century, Birkhäuser, HT185 .C576 2017
Von Mahs, Jürgen, Down and out in Los Angeles and Berlin: the sociospatial exclusion of homeless people, Temple University Press, HV4506.L67V66 2015
Bloomfield, Martha Aladjem, My eyes feel they need to cry : stories from the formerly homeless, Michigan State University Press, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Desjarlais, Robert R., Shelter blues : sanity and selfhood among the homeless, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
“Developing new categories for homelessness” Los Angeles Economic Roundtable, 2018
Healthy City (California demographic data)
National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (U.S. Census Bureau)
Ruddick, Susan M, Young and homeless In Hollywood: Mapping the social identities, Routledge, HV4506.L67R83 1996
Schweid, Richard, Invisible nation : homeless families in America, University of California Press, HV4505.S39 2016
Schutt, Russell K. & Stephen M. Goldfinger, Homelessness, housing, and mental illness, Harvard University Press, HV3006.A4 S383 2011
Desmond, Matthew, Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city, Crown Publishers, HD7287.96.U6D47 2016
Eviction Lab (“the first nationwide database of evictions” via Princeton University)
“Housing,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2018 (Symposium on housing, home ownership and homelessness; PDFs available via Jstor)
Moulton, Shawn, “Does increased funding for homeless programs reduce chronic homelessness?” Southern Economic Journal, v. 79, #3, 2013, p. 600–620 (PDF available via Jstor)
Stiglitz, Joseph E., The price of inequality: how today’s divided society endangers our future, W. W. Norton, HC110.I5S867 2013
Arnold, Kathleen R., Homelessness, citizenship, and identity : the uncanniness of late modernity, State University of New York Press, 2004 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Beier, A. L. & Paul Ocobock (Editors), Cast out : vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective, Ohio University Press, 2009 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Gorlin, Alexander & Victoria Newhouse (Editors), Housing the nation : social equity, architecture, and the future of affordable housing, Rizzoli, HD7293 .H7827 2024
Helvie Carl O. & Wilfried Kunstmann (Editors), Homelessness in the United States, Europe, and Russia : a comparative perspective, Bergin & Garvey, HV4480.H65 1999
Hernández, Kelly Lytle, “Hobos in heaven: race, incarceration, and the rise of Los Angeles, 1880–1910,” Pacific Historical Review, v. 83, #3, 2014, p. 410-448 (PDF available via Jstor)
Hopper, Kim, Reckoning with homelessness, Cornell University Press, HV4505.H665 2003
How Housing Matters (research on “how access to quality, affordable housing can strengthen families and revitalize communities” curated by the Urban Institute)
Howard, Ella, Homeless : poverty and place in urban America, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Jencks, Christopher, The Homeless, Harvard University Press, HV4505.J46 1994
King, Peter, In dwelling : implacability, exclusion and acceptance, Routledge, 2008 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Willse, Craig, Value of homelessness : managing surplus life in the United States, University of Minnesota Press, 2015 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Wright, Gwendolyn, Building the dream: a social history of housing in America, Pantheon Books, HD7293.W74
American Bar Association commission on Homelessness and Poverty
Bratt, Rachel G., et al. (editors), A right to housing: foundation for a new social agenda, Temple University Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)
National Homelessness Law Center (“works in a variety of arenas to help the nation's 3.5 million people who are experiencing homelessness and its many inhuman effects”)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documents: “The Human Right to Adequate Housing”, “Housing”, “Women and housing”, and “Women and Land, Property, and Housing”
Angel, Shlomo, Housing policy matters : a global analysis, Oxford University Press, 2000 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Balchin, Paul N., Housing policy : an introduction, Routledge, 2002 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Bauman, John F., et al., From tenements to the Taylor homes: in search of an urban housing policy in twentieth-century America, Pennsylvania State University Press, HD7293.F76 2000
Ellen, Ingrid Gould & Brendan O’Flaherty (editors), How to house the homeless, Russell Sage Foundation, 2010 (via Ebook Central)
Jamelle, Hina (editor), Under pressure : essays on urban housing, Routledge, HD7287 .U353 2022
Landis, John D. & Kirk McClure, “Rethinking federal housing policy,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Summer 2010, p. 319-348
Newman, Sandra J. (Editor), The home front : implications of welfare reform for housing policy, Urban Institute Press, HD7288.78.U5H655 1999
Reslock, Debbie Sullivan, “Housing for all? Homeless numbers are down, but there’s much work to do,” Planning, February 2016, p.34-38
Schutt, Russell K. & Gerald R. Garrett, Responding to the homeless: policy and practice, Plenum Press, HV4505.S38 1992
Schwartz, Alex F., Housing policy in the United States, Routledge, HD7293.S373 2015
Downtown Women's Center Inc., 333 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (Food, medical & housing services)
Homeless Health Care, 512 E 4th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
L.A. Poverty Department (Community arts organization focused on “the idea that Skid Row could be improved, by embracing and nourishing the powers of the people who live there.” Projects include the Skid Row History Museum & Archive.)
Skid Row Housing Trust, 108 E 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (operates several housing assistance venues)
Street Symphony (“places social justice at the heart of music making by creating authentic, powerful engagements between professional and emerging artists and communities disenfranchised by homelessness and incarceration in Los Angeles County”)
The People Concern (formerly Lamp Community; Los Angeles-based “provider of, and advocate for, evidence-based solutions to the multi-faceted challenges inherent in homelessness and domestic violence.”)
Volunteers of America, 543 Crocker St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (housing services)
Weingart Center (“provides comprehensive human services to homeless individuals and to those at risk of becoming homeless giving them the skills, resources and hope they need to lead productive and self-sufficient lives off the streets”)
“Affordable + green public housing,” Space, #498, May 2009 (Theme issue)
Chu, Lenora, “Ways and means,” Dwell, December/January 2006/2007, p. 194-202 (Affordable housing in Los Angeles)
Hernández, Caitlin, "Affordable Housing : We dig into the history and how approaches changed," LAist, December 21, 2023
Hinson, David & Justin Miller, Designed for Habitat : collaborations with Habitat for Humanity, Routledge, NA2543.S6 H56 2023
Kubey, Karen (editor), Housing as intervention: architecture towards social equity, John Wiley & Sons, 2018 (ebook via Ebook Central)
Phillips, Andrea & Fulya Erdemci (Editors), Social housing--housing the social : art, property and spatial justice, Sternberg Press, HD7287 .S62 2012
Wells, Walker, Blueprint for greening affordable housing, Island Press, 2007 (ebook available via Ebook Central)
Aquilino, Marie Jeannine, Beyond shelter: architecture and human dignity, Metropolis Books, NA2543.S6B49 2011
Borges, Sofia & R. Scott Mitchell (editors), Give me shelter: architecture takes on the homeless crisis, Oro Editions, HD7287.96.3U62L674 2018
Brown, David J. (Editor), The HOME House Project : the future of affordable housing, MIT Press, NA7540.H66 2004
Chiland, Elijah, “Designers envision shelters for LA’s homeless residents,” Curbed Los Angeles, July 31, 2018
Cimino, S., "Can design help solve LA’s homeless crisis?” Architect, April 2018, p. 98–101
Clouette, Benedict, Forms of aid : architectures of humanitarian space, Birkhäuser, NA2542.4.C59 2017 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)
Davis, Sam, Designing for the homeless: architecture that works, University of California Press, NA7540.D385 2004
Dörries, Cornelia & Sarah Zahra, Container and modular buildings: construction and design manual, DOM Publishers, NA2542.4.D67 2016
Freear, Andrew, et al., Rural Studio at twenty : designing and building in Hale County, Alabama, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2300.A9F74 2014 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)
Hamilton, William L., “Shelter is a state of mind: Parsons and Pratt students have lessons to teach us about solutions for homelessness,” Interior Design, June 2015, p.128-130
Minimum Cost Housing Group (McGill University)
Pable, Jill, Homelessness and the built environment : designing for unhoused persons, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, HV4505 .P223 2022
Smith, Cynthia E., et al., Design with the other 90%: cities, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, TS171.4.D488 2011
The Terner Center for Housing and Innovation (The Terner Center at University of California, Berkeley, "leverages applied research and best practices to inform and advance innovation in the planning, financing, design and development of the built environment.")
Homeless Shelter Directory (Nationwide)
DTLA emergency shelters include Cardinal Manning Center, 231 Winston St, Los Angeles, CA 90013; Emmanuel Baptist Rescue Mission, 530 E 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (since 1953); Los Angeles Mission, 303 E 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013; Midnight Mission, 601 San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90014 (since 1914); Union Rescue Mission, 545 San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (programs include Hope Gardens Family Center in Sylmar)
Goff, Lisa, Shantytown USA: forgotten landscapes of the working poor, Harvard University Press, HD7287.96.U6G64 2016
Hailey, Charlie, Slab City: dispatches from the last free place, MIT Press, HD7287.96.U622 C245 2018
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Tent City, USA: the growth of America’s homeless encampments and how communities are responding, 2017 (PDF available via NLC)
National Coalition for the Homeless, Swept away: reporting on the encampment closure crisis, 2016
Sagner, K. & H. Denninger, “The architecture of the homeless,” Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme, #239, 2003, p. 96–103 200
Speer, Jessie, “The rise of the tent ward: Homeless camps in the era of mass incarceration,” Political Geography, v. 62, p. 160-169 (PDF available via ResearchGate)
Austen, Ben, High-risers: Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Harper, HD7288.78.U52 C425 2018
Boughton, John, A history of council housing in 100 estates, RIBA Publishing, HD7288.78.G7 B677 2023
Cisneros, Henry G. & Lora Engdahl (editors), From despair to hope: HOPE VI and the new promise of public housing in America's cities, 2009 (via Ebook Central)
Figuerola, Caterina & Ibon Bilbao (Editors), Gestating / living : Barcelona's social housing strategies, Barcelona City Council : Barcelona Housing Authority ; Architects' Association of Catalonia-COAC, HD7351.B3 G47 2023
Glynn, Sarah, Where the other half lives: lower income housing in a neoliberal world, Pluto Press, 2009 (ebook via Ebrary)
Koebel, C. Theodore (editor), Shelter and society : theory, research, and policy for nonprofit housing, State University of New York Press, HD7287.96.U6S53 1998
Pabl, Jill, et al, Homelessness and the built environment: designing for unhoused persons, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, HV4505 .P223 2022
Parson, Donald Craig, Making a better world: public housing, the red scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles, University of Minnesota Press, 2003 (ebook via Ebrary)
Popkin, Susan J., The hidden war: crime and the tragedy of public housing in Chicago, Rutgers University Press, HD7288.78.U52C44 2000
Reid, Ian & Trymaine Lee, Complex geometry : New York City Housing Authority, Brooklyn, Ginko Press in association with Beyond the Streets, NA7540 .R45 2022
Vale, Lawrence J., From the Puritans to the projects : public housing and public neighbors, Harvard University Press, HD7288.78.U52M48 2000
A Bridge Home (City of L.A. 2018 initiative to build transitional housing in each of L.A.’s 15 council districts, generating opposition in Koreatown (Wilshire Community Coalition), Venice, Sherman Oaks, etc.)
Marr, Matthew D., Better must come : exiting homelessness in two global cities, Cornell University Press, 2015 (ebook available via Ebook Central; On “transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous cities of the global economy, Los Angeles and Tokyo”)
