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What were tenements like in the United States?

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New York was not the only city in America where tenement housing emerged as a way to accommodate a growing population during the 1900s. read more

No running water, no toilet facilities, rickety, dangerous, freezing in the winter, suffocating in the summer. Blocks of seething poor humanity each with about 2 cubic feet to call their own (if they were lucky), lawless, filthy and Darwinian. read more

Two major studies of tenements were completed in the 1890s, and in 1901 city officials passed the Tenement House Law, which effectively outlawed the construction of new tenements on 25-foot lots and mandated improved sanitary conditions, fire escapes and access to light. read more

Tenements were first built to house the waves of immigrants that arrived in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, and they represented the primary form of urban working-class housing until the New Deal. read more

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