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"Living Space: Housing Solutions for Developing Nations" - Financial Times This article is often sited on other blogs and websites. You must register to read the article; however, you can find the content in several other locations as well if you would rather dig than register for free.

Monitor has done several interesting research projects concerning housing for the poor. This website has several articles. You must register, however all you need to provide is name and email. It is a painless process and worth it. Several articles concern India. Articles of note include: "Working Session in Sustainable Technologies in Low-Income Housing" and "Using the Internet to Scale." The former is written very much in a business format, while the latter is more friendly language although they cover vastly different subjects.

"Give Me Shelter: The Global Housing Crisis" - Environmental Health Perspectives

"The Crisis and Modernity of Housing Disasters in Developing Countries: Particular Housing and Tehcnology After the Marathwada (1993) Earthquake" - Alex Salazar Paper on the "social, spatial and technological impact on post-disaster housing projects on rural communities in Marathwada, Indai" (qtd from abstract).

"Understanding Housing and Economic Development" - New Habari Ltd

"Cheap Houses" - Encountering Urbanization

UN Press Briefing on right to adequate housing - UN