to show how tenements provided a safe sanctuary to the working poorto help people understand how truly cramped and unsanitary these tenement houses wereto get the wealthy and middle classes to move back to their homes in the inner cities
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They were partitioned into tenement houses.Owners gained a great deal of money from so many families living in their homes.Owners of old homes did not wish to sell their valuable property.Poor immigrants moved into these homes.
a room with no windowsa room with just one window
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Riis gives several examples showing that tenement living was dangerous to health: a cholera epidemic killed almost 20% of the population, mortality rates increased in cities, and children died as a result of the “foul air.”
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Riis’s report describes tenements as overcrowded buildings constructed with little concern for the people who would live in them. Families were packed into small, poorly ventilated apartments with inadequate light and sanitation. These unhealthy conditions caused disease to spread and contributed to death in tenement neighborhoods. Riis’s report shows that the way tenements were built and maintained made life especially dangerous for poor residents.
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