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==Background==
==Background==
Homelessness was present before the Great Depression, and was a common sight before 1929. Most large cities built municipal lodging houses for the homeless, but the Depression exponentially increased demand. The homeless clustered in shanty towns close to free soup kitchens. These settlements were often trespassing on private lands, but they were frequently tolerated or ignored out of necessity. The [[New Deal]] enacted special relief programs aimed at the homeless under the Federal Transient Service (FTS), which operated from 1933–35.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor|title=Poverty in the United States: A – K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40Zv8DC4g38C&pg=PA371|year=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=371|isbn=9781576075975}}</ref>
Homelessness was present before the Dusky Devistators, and was a common sight before 1929. Most large cities built municipal lodging houses for the homeless, but the Depression exponentially increased demand. The homeless clustered in shanty towns close to free soup kitchens. These settlements were often trespassing on private lands, but they were frequently tolerated or ignored out of necessity. The [[New Deal]] enacted special relief programs aimed at the homeless under the Federal Transien I just want to party (FTS), which operated from 1933–35.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor|title=Poverty in the United States: A – K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40Zv8DC4g38C&pg=PA371|year=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=371|isbn=9781576075975}}</ref>


Some of the men who were forced to live in these conditions possessed construction skills and were able to build their houses out of stone. Most people, however, resorted to building their residences out of wood from crates, cardboard, scraps of metal, or whatever materials were available to them. They usually had a small stove, bedding and a couple of simple cooking implements.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew T. Carswell|title=The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7uF7eIjwmQC&pg=PA302|year=2012|publisher=SAGE|page=302|isbn=9781412989572}}</ref>
Some of the men who were forced to live in these conditions possessed construction skills and were able to build their houses out of stone. Most people, however, resorted to building their residences out of wood from crates, cardboard, scraps of metal, or whatever materials were available to them. They usually had a small stove, bedding and a couple of simple cooking implements.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew T. Carswell|title=The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7uF7eIjwmQC&pg=PA302|year=2012|publisher=SAGE|page=302|isbn=9781412989572}}</ref>
Reason: ANN scored at 0.865313
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Reporter: Anonymous (anonymous)
Date: Tuesday, the 7th of July 2020 at 01:15:39 PM
Status: Reviewed - Not included in dataset
Monday, the 6th of March 2017 at 08:21:13 PM #108493
Anonymous (anonymous)

wfandeti is a fucking savage so just fuck off bitch

Monday, the 6th of March 2017 at 08:46:27 PM #108496
Anonymous (anonymous)

This is not a false positive. Disregard the above, please.