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Poorhouse Revisited

Dennis P Culhane

November 19, 1991
Housing Interventions
Policy Analysis and Commentary
Abstract

The shelter reveals a charade in American welfare policy, pretending to show concern for the visible poor while demonstrating contempt for the invisible poor -- those struggling to keep a day ahead of homelessness. As we try to help the homeless with shelters, we ignore the policies that continue to put people in them.

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