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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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
The Bank of England said on Tuesday it was considering a set of "fundamental rules" for securities and derivatives clearing and settlement houses as it revamps UK regulation post-Brexit.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2023
Next week: Washington’s African-American community supported its own settlement houses.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
By 1887 there were 10 sand gardens, mostly located near the settlement houses that served recently arrived immigrant families.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018
The hair was sold for wigs, the clothing given to settlement houses.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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