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Sociology 498: Homelessness 

Liebow: Tell Them Who I Am

Liebow's contrast of shelter types

[At the Refuge]: "We are not here to change the women. We are here to offer them a safe, warm place to sleep at night."

"At Bridge House in contrast, the staff saw themselves as professionals whose job it was to change the women, to help them out of homelessness."

Elliot Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am, chapter 4, page 123.
 

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