This special report includes 12 articles on housing and education. A community housing corporation formed to renovate housing in depressed areas in St. Louis, Mo. is described. So-called "gray areas" of housing in New York are analyzed, together with solutions to prevent further deterioration. Factors in the deterioration of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, Mo. are detailed in another article. Two planning articles discussing factors involved in successful housing projects and suburban housing are included. Other articles deal with cost factors in housing, and confrontation politics relative to housing. The educational articles discuss architectural features of schools which have a liberating influence on the educational processes taking place therein. [Not included in this document is a brief excerpt from George Dennison's "The Lives of Children."] (Author/DM)