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.