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During an emotional address, Janice Flemming-Butler wipes tears while talking about growing up poor in Hartford and visiting the Connecticut Department of Social Services, or "Welfare Building," that occupied the former Fuller Brush Factory." "It is here where the shame began," she said, "It is here where we sat in the hallway for hours in 90 degree weather to be told if you qualify.” Flemming-Butler's company, Strategic Outreach Solutions, helped facilitate a $36-million effort to develop the 12-acre Main Street property into a 160-unit apartment complex.
Mark Mirko
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Connecticut Public
The building also once housed the Connecticut Department of Social Services and was nicknamed “The Welfare Building.” Single mothers and fathers went there to pick up government aid like food stamps.
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