"As we utter the word tramp there arises straightway before us the spectacle of a lazy, shiftless, sauntering or swaggering, ill-conditioned, irreclaimable, incorrigible, cowardly, utterly depraved savage."
— Homelessness

January 1, 1970

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Francis Wayland, the dean of Yale Law School, in 1877; quoted in “Permanent Supportive Housing: Evaluating the Evidence for Improving Health Outcomes Among People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness”, NCBI (2018)