Housing Pensioners: Responses


 

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.