Federal legislative history

Housing policy expert Madeleine Marr dug into previously-written legislative histories of federal housing bills. She was kind enough to share her bibliography, including in parenthesis which housing laws are covered:

• Modern Housing for America, Gail Radford, 1996, (Housing Act of 1934 and Housing Act of 1937)
• The Wagner Housing Act: A Case Study of the Legislative Process, Timothy McDonnell, 1957 (Housing Act of 1937)\
• Housing Reform During the Truman Administration Richard Davies, 1966 (Housing Act of 1949)
• Government and Slum Housing: A Century of Frustration, 1969, Lawrence Friedman (Housing Act of 1954)
• Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of An Urban Reformer, Wendell Pritchett, 2008, (Fair Housing Act and HUD Act)
• Building Foundations: Housing and Federal Policy, edited by Denise DiPasquale & Langley C. Keyes, 1990 (Cranston-Gonzalez)
• The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods, David Erickson, 2009 (Cranston-Gonzalez)
• Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t, Robert Kaiser, 2013 (Dodd-Frank)
• Federal Government & Urban Housing (3rd ed.), R. Allen Hays, 2012 (all)