HI, independently.  Your comment about "demands for relief" reminds me of what my grandmother told me.  In the 1930s, as a single mother of 3, she rented a large home in Vancouver.  Owners had returned to the UK.  She operated the place as a boarding house.  She went to the property management office and told the reps she couldn't pay the rent.  Sure the house was full, but most people were on "relief" and couldn't Pay her.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Thorne," the property managers told her. "Just take good care of the place and pay us when you can..."  Went on for years that way.