Initiatives for a Stronger Community, 2015
Erie County Executive
Erie County Housing Resource Directory: A guide for solving housing related problems, 2018
Erie County Dept. of Health
Erie County Housing Resource Directory: A guide for solving housing related problems, 2020
Erie County Department of Health
Older People of St. Boniface Parish, 1957
In the Fruit Belt. Janet Bower
John R. Oishei: Buffalo Businessman and Benefactor, 2004
Oishei Foundation
Buffalo Promise Neighborhood Needs Assessment Study, 2011
UB Regional Institute in partnership with the Urban Design Project of the University
Account of the discussions of a group of case workers in the Buffalo Family Service Society, 1935-1938
Flora A. Landen
Annual report of the Charity Organization Society, 1899-1917
Caring for the poor of Buffalo : attacking the causes of poverty in Buffalo, 1907
Charity Organization Society
Father Baker and his Lady of Victory Charities, 1925
Thomas A. Galvin
Poverty in Buffalo: Causes, Impacts, Solutions, 2018
Profile of Financial Hardship in Erie County, 2016
United Way of Buffalo
Erie County Poor House ledgers
Courtesy of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Twenty thousand transients: a one year's sample of those who apply for aid in a northern city, 1935
Buffalo during the Great Depression
Provident Schemes, 1879
S. Humphreys Gurteen, the founder of the Charity Organization Society
Westminster House report, 1890
A settlement house
Homelessness Among Young Adults in Buffalo: A Research Report Highlighing Youth Voices, 2015?
Elizabeth Bowen & others
Annual report of the Crippled Children's Guild, 1914/1915
Plan for priorities in community services for Buffalo and Erie County, 1963
Community Welfare Council of Buffalo and Erie County
Finding foster homes, 1936
Gertrude E. Breese, home finder, Department of Foster Home Care, the Children's Aid Society
Directory of community services in Buffalo and Erie County, 1921
How the feebleminded live in the community : a report of a social investigation of the Erie County feeble-minded discharged from the Rome State School, 1905-1924
Study of Friendship House, Lackawanna, New York, 1962
Relief: A primer for the family rehabilitation work of the Buffalo Charity Organization, 1910
Frederick Almy
Rendered Unfit: “Defective” Children in the Erie County Poorhouse
You may have to email to request the full text.
City of Buffalo and its charitable and correctional institutions, 1888
Survey of Mental Illness in the Erie County Poorhouse Hospital Between 1854 and 1860
Pauper's Shame: A Biocultural Investigation of Trauma, Impairment, and Disability in the Erie County Poorhouse, 1851-1913
PhD thesis from the University at Buffalo
Plans for poor-houses, 1879
William Pryor Letchworth
Poor woman wants permit to go to Almshouse: Women, gender and poverty in New York's Burned-Over District, 1821-1861
A PhD dissertation. Mentions Erie County