In some of the cases listed earlier, the housing assistance came in the form of private charitable donations that built shared homes for poor families (like almshouses).
In 1523, 52 houses of an estate called the Fuggerei were built by Fugger, it was originally an almshouse intended to serve as a retirement home for his aged servants.
Arabella smiled grimly as she resumed her way, and practised dimple-making all along the road from where the pollard willows begin to the old almshouses in the first street of the town.
No matter who I am speaking to, I always speak my mind." Su Shi said of himself, " I can accompany the Jade Emperor in heaven and beggars in the almshouse on earth.
" —Why, when I was just two years older than you, " he rasped with a cunning chuckle, " I sent three members of the firm of Wrenn and Hunt to the poorhouse" .
“——为什么,当我只比你大两岁的时候,”他带着狡黠的笑声刺耳地说,“我把 Wrenn and Hunt 公司的三名成员送到了。”