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Tag: Housing

  • Housing and Homelessness: A Brief History of a national Disgrace

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    rsburke
    in

    Introduction   In the mid nineteenth century, English social reformer Edwin Chadwick established an association between appalling living conditions and poor health. Soon thereafter, Rudolph Virchow, the founder of both modern pathology and the field of social medicine, recognized the link between rising rates of infectious disease and crowded, poorly maintained housing. In the absence…