Faced with a desperate shortage of low-cost housing, New York City in 1965 began locating homeless families on welfare "temporarily" in hotels. What started as an emergency measure has burgeoned into a monstrous problem, a squalid way of life. Since January, 1969, the number of welfare families housed in hotels throughout the city many for periods of one year or longer has risen from 262 to close to 1,120, and their numbers are increasing at a rate of 10% a month. TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Robert Anson visited a number of...
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