How to Use settlement house in a Sentence
settlement house
noun
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Friendship House was a settlement house, one of many that popped up across the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Washington Post,
19 Jan. 2022
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Most readers likely haven't heard of settlement houses.
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Chuck Yarborough,
cleveland.com,
16 Jan. 2018
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In Gulu, inequality is soaring, with vast and sparkling private buildings just across the road from settlements housing multiple families.
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Musa Okwonga,
Quartz Africa,
30 May 2019
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Henry Street, created in response to a growing immigrant population living in squalid conditions, was one of New York’s first settlement houses.
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Hilary Howard,
New York Times,
23 Aug. 2019
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Both belong to a network of neighborhood settlement houses that are central to the current urban strategy of the city’s foundations — to concentrate resources into a handful of neighborhoods rather than attempt to blanket the entire city.
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John Schmid,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2018
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African Americans, too, benefited from settlement houses.
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Andre M. Archie,
National Review,
7 Nov. 2019
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