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The Homeless Shelter and the Nineteenth Century Poorhouse: Comparing Notes from Two Eras of Indoor Relief
Dennis P Culhane
January 2, 1996Policy Analysis and Commentary
Abstract
Miserable, poorly managed, underfinanced institutions, trapped by their own contradictions, poorhouses failed to meet any of the goals so confidently predicted by their sponsors. Michael Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
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