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The organizational structure of da Costa Nunes and Sribnick's sweeping history of poverty in New York City can serve as a convenient typology for the larger matter of poverty and homeless in general. Da Costa Nunes and Sribnick close their account by reminding us that homelessness is caused by "deep poverty" but policies rarely address this fact. Da Costa Nunes and Sribnick illuminate the importance of family poverty throughout U.S. history, from antebellum widows' relief to Depression-era Hoovervilles to the "new homeless" of the post-Industrial era. Keywords: homelessness; vagrancy; family poverty; social welfare; poor relief EN homelessness vagrancy family poverty social welfare poor relief 199 205 7 01/17/22 20220101 NES 220101 O'Brassill-Kulfan, Kristin (2019). [Extracted from the article]