A "poorhouse" refers to a place where people who are very poor or have no money to support themselves go to live.
Sentences with «poorhouse»
Those who have followed Updike's multilayered theological struggles since his first novel, Poorhouse Fair in 1959, will find Updike at his best in Lilies. (religion-online.org)
Soon after becoming bishop, he put his authority into action, establishing soup kitchens, hospitals, hospices and poorhouses throughout the region. (relevantmagazine.com)
A work such as this was never from God: poor people evicted to wander the road, or to the dark poorhouse where man and wife lie in separate wards, locked apart till they die. (firstthings.com)