Ada Elizabeth Chesterton decided on a dare to live on the streets of London.
In Darkest London chronicles her two week experience.
What she found was a class of individuals, all without permanent homes, traveling between shelters in which overly bureaucratic organizations made life incredibly difficult. Chesterton concludes that the number of shelters, in particular those catering to women, were insufficient to handle the volume of people needing help, and those that did exist were too often unnecessarily restrictive. She claims that the government-run shelters in particular were designed not to help women, but to reform..." data-title="Книга In Darkest London">
