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In 1986, during the course of assessing the health status and health care needs of homeless children in New York City, my colleagues and I visited one of the city's largest and most notorious family-placement welfare hotels. The experience was heart-rending. On the day of our visit some 1000 children -- each with at least one parent -- were warehoused under conditions of profound squalor.

The building itself, like most welfare hotels in New York, was condemnable under the codes that existed then. These facilities were kept open because the city simply had no other place to shelter many of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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