tenement housing
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Colonial authorities, meanwhile, transform the Worli chawls - tenement housing for cotton mill workers - into makeshift prisons for detained nationalists.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
The sweetheart deals include trade-offs to developers to build tall tenement housing structures on the condition that they add more affordable housing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
Like so many others, they live in cheap, overcrowded tenement housing, where necessities such as electricity and proper ventilation are hard to come by.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2021
In 1867, New York adopted a new tenement housing code that mandated a maximum number of residents to a toilet.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
They knew how frail was the small tenement housing Miss Judy's quenchless spirit.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
