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Municipal Service for Homeless Men, Los Angeles, 1931
(According to California historian Kevin Starr, “By the spring of 1932, the bureau was offering seven days of meals and lodging for indigents, followed by a cash grant for a ticket out of town and a warning that Los Angeles had strict vagrancy rules. In 1931 the bureau processed 40 thousand indigents, a five-fold leap from 1929.”)
