Essay On Tenements

Tenements are what workers stayed in when they were working in the mines during the industrial revolution. A tenement is a large. A tenement is a large building divided into many rooms. The word "tenement" originally referred to tenancy and therefore to any rented accommodation. Tenements make up a large percentage of the housing stock. Tenements were originally made for a lot of immigrants, immigrating to the city. Tenements have very poor conditions and often people got sick or got diseases due to these slum conditions.
The tenements were dirty and not sanitary at all, people often didn’t have fresh food and water to eat and drink. In the 1900’s, many people began crowding into America’s cities, including hundreds of newly arrived immigrants looking for a better one than the one that they had, had in their previous lives.
In New York City–where the population increased every 10 years, from 1800 to 1880. Buildings that had once been single-family dwellings were increasingly divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate this growing population. Known as tenements, these narrow, low-rise apartment buildings were all too often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation.
A tenement building had 5-7 stories. Many tenements began as single-family ‘apartments’, and many
Later, people began building new tenements, often using cheap, horrible materials and construction shortcuts. Even now, this kind of housing was at best uncomfortable and at worst highly unsafe. Tenements were not the ideal place for people to stay but it kept everybody in one place so that’s where they had to stay and man people got dieseas and different types of sicknesses because of the terrible conditions and the serious lack of space, everyone was practically living on-top of each