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  1. When #Lodgers Were “#Evil” - JSTOR Daily

    In #cities across the #UnitedStates, #politicians and #media figures often cite “the #homeless” as a threatening symbol of #social #breakdown. In the early twentieth century, write #historian David T. Beito and #political #scientist Linda Royster Beito, something similar happened with an economically #marginal #urban type, in the form of what was then known as the “#lodger evil.”

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