He lived with the tramps.
He probably did know something about it.
He seemed to be a very kind man who was very concerned with the lot of the homeless and the itinerant workers.
The other thing that was interesting about what he wrote in his diaries was that even though it was 80 years ago the problems were very much the same as they are today. No place decent to live, hard to find any kind of decent food, lack of health care.
Things haven't changed much.
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