[Ads-l] unhoused---and "houseless"

James Landau 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Wed Sep 16 13:24:14 UTC 2020


On  Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:56:06 Zone-0400   Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:Subject: 

>Well, it is the case, as has long since been noted, that "a house is not a home."
This was the title of a 1964 book by Polly Adler, about her experiences as a brothel madam.  Google Books has this expression in 1826
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Maine_Reports/vTQtAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a+house+is+not+a+home&pg=PA51&printsec=frontcover
Parsonfield v. Kennebunkport in Maine Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court page 51
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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