settlement houses
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Settlement houses attracted idealistic college graduates eager to learn how the poor lived and to improve the condition of the poor.
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Jewish community organizations, schools and settlement houses, which provided immigrants with educational and recreational opportunities, put together basketball teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
Bankers says that moving to T+1 in Europe will be more complex than in the United States given the significantly greater number of exchanges, clearers, and settlement houses in Europe.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2023
There were more than 400 settlement houses in the U.S.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022
The halfway point is the Queensland Drawbridge, which arches over the river, and then the course winds back toward the historic settlement houses and into Old Town.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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