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BY THE TIME FRANKLIN DELANO Roosevelt was inaugurated as president, New York City had seen more than a quarter-million evictions and an estimated 20,000 of its citizens were wandering the streets at night looking for a place to sleep. The national Children's Bureau put the number of teenagers nationwide who were on their own, part of the "vast, homeless horde," at a quarter million.
New York City's six-story Municipal Lodging House on East 25th Street was packed every night with people of all ages, its 3,300 beds taken by desperate men, women, and children with the overflow sleeping on benches and floors. Exactly where is the Catholic Church in the midst of this crisis? Dorothy and Peter asked.