Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole scheme is adapted to but a small portion of the needy, viz: the homeless. - (a) Applicable to unencumbered individuals and not to families: Contemp. Rev. Vol. 67, p. 64 (July 1892). - (b) Class of homeless unemployed not large for so great a scheme: Riis, How Other Half Lives, 89; Contemp. Rev. Vol. 62, p. 64; Forum...
...scheme is objectionable even for the homeless. - (a) The City Colony is objectionable. - (1) "Shelters" encourage vagrancy and dissolution of family ties by wife - desertion: Contemp - Rev. 62, p. 65-66, 70; Riis, p. 82. - (2) "Elevators" attract but few of them. - (x) Laziness: Forum 16, p. 754-5; Contemp. Rev. 60, p. 253.- (3) Occupants become willingly dependent on charity: Contemp. Rev. 62, p. 75-76. - (4) Labor bureaus of but slight advantage. - (x) Employers distrust applicants. - (y) Salvation sympathizers discriminate against other workmen: Contemp. Rev. 62 p. 71-2. - (5) "Salvage Brigade" no field for work...