In New York City, rapid growth and the imposition of the New York City street grid both played major roles in the look, density, and availability of housing for New Yorkers. Tenements originated from ...

The majority of New York City's population in the 19th Century lived in sub-standard conditions as vulnerable and low-income populations were housed in cramped and dangerous tenements. New York didn't ...

Dark, filthy, insanitary city stink-holes were one of President Hoover’s pet aversions. During his administration the R. F. C. voted $1,500,000,000 for loans to ‘limited-dividend housing corporations ...

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FORT GREENE — The affordable housing crisis in New York has been in existence since the turn of the 20th century, with the advent of overcrowded and unsafe tenement housing in lower Manhattan. In 1934 ...

MANILA, Philippines – The hundreds of Tenement residents who face the constant threat of eviction found a champion in an unlikely person. Their champion did not grow up at the 11-storey housing ...

The morning began like any other at the Fort Bonifacio housing tenement in Taguig City, Philippines, just outside Manila. Caged roosters crowed on the rooftop. Seven floors below, bristles from an ...

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