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Urban poor

Gimme Shelter

by Wes Enzinna,

The cost of living in the Bay Area

Here Comes Everybuddy

by Andy Merrifield,

Homeless in Sacramento

by William T. Vollmann,

Welcome to the new tent cities

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Art by Gary Musgrave,

Planet of slums

by Mike Davis,

The social-industrial complex

by Michael Harrington,

Boston’s bristly Mr. Logue

by Allan R. Talbot,

A new attack on delinquency

by John Bartlow Martin,

How the Chicago Area Project works

Happy days

by Harper’s Staff,

A philanthropist

by Harper’s Staff,

A Paris school colony

by Stoddard Dewey,

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