Why Settlement Houses Helped Immigrants

Explain why settlement houses developed and how they helped or hindered immigrants. . . . They were orginally built to be a nice and welcoming household for the "upper class", so they could work as a pioneer. They were put in some of the worst or poor parts of the citys. The people living in the housing recived education and religion. They recvied this from university students, most of them were there to do research on how the immigrants were living in these poor conditions. Some of the students was just there to spread christianity too the people. The death rate was high mainly,because it was in the slums. This means everyone is looking out for themselves. The rooms being overcrowded also cause a few deaths. The rooms were overcrowded because