Examples of tenement in the following topics:
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- Such tenements (or "walk-ups") were particularly prevalent in New York, where in 1865 a report stated that 500,000 people lived in unhealthy tenements, whereas in Boston in 1845 less than a quarter of workers were housed in tenements.
- Here is an examples of Riis' description of the New York City tenements:
- It is the lullaby of tenement-house babes.
- The Tenement House Act of 1867 was amended by the Tenement House Act of 1879, also known as the "Old Law," which required lot coverage of no more than 65%.
- Assess the hazards of tenement living in the late nineteenth century
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- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890), by photojournalist Jacob Riis, documented the squalid living conditions of New York City slums during the 1880's .
- How the Other Half Lives detailed the brutal living conditions not only of New York's slums, but also its tenements.
- The public reaction to these accounts helped fuel the tearing down of New York's worst tenements and sweatshops, as well as the city's reformation of its schools, and lead to a decade of vast improvements regarding public conditions in the Lower East Side.
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- His most famous work, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) documented squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
- With the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller, Riis endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York.
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- The buildings were clad in white stucco, which, in comparison to the tenements of Chicago, seemed illuminated.
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- At least one critic of the time did not like their choice of subjects, which included alleys, tenements, slum dwellers, and taverns frequented by the working class.
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- Most of the new arrivals were poor Catholic peasants or laborers from Ireland and Germany who crowded into the tenements of large cities.