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Representing the Poor and Homeless: A Community-Based Approach

Solomon, Robert
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low-income housing
 homelessness
 client
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Several years ago, at a conference on representing the homeless, advocates were discussing developing suitable housing for single homeless people. Several people argued against single room occupancy (SRO) units without bathrooms and cooking facilities. The question was posed as one of human dignity; our clients should not be subjected to the lowest possible form of housing. I was fully persuaded by the argument, but for one problem. In New Haven, Connecticut, in seeking to redevelop Connecticut's largest SRO, we had interviewed 150 of the 218 occupants. Our clients, a large majority, told us that they did not want bathrooms or, to a lesser extent, cooking facilities in their rooms. When I mentioned this, an advocate from Wisconsin stated that his program had had the same experience.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/3903