tenement
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Legislation was enacted, including the first serious urban-housing codes, such as New York’s Tenement House Act of 1901.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
Their distinctive, otherworldly style quickly stood out, earning a live slot at Tenement Trail in Glasgow later that year.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025
If New York’s heartbeat of outdoor basketball is Rucker Park, then Manila’s is Tenement Court — located in the courtyard between several tenement buildings.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023
People lived, the New York State Tenement House Commission found in 1900, "crowded together in dark, ill-ventilated rooms, in many of which the sunlight never enters and in most of which fresh air is unknown."
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2022
They are damp and dark, and the tenants, who are always the poorest and most crowded, live "as in a cage open only toward the front," said the Tenement House Committee.
From A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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