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Publication Date: January 1914
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Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: Social Services; Housing; Poverty
Type: Newsletter
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Social workers write in to comment on Oscar Leonard's article articulating a plan to provide housing projects for recipients of aid. They unanimously oppose it on various grounds, including the fear of encouraging pauperism and the likely social stigma attaching to the recipients and their families.
In Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities 1913-1914, Baltimore, Vol.IV:6, ed. Lee F. Frankel.