tenement

NYC had numerous building codes and restrictions previously, including the 1867 Tenement Law, and the famous 1901 new tenement law.

Living out of a car or tenement is generally detrimental to one's ability to focus on the business.

No, but my standard of living makes the affordable parts of most cities look like tenement housing in comparison.

My great grandmother was robbed, beaten, tied up and left for dead on the floor of her tenement looking apartment.

In urban areas, you're looking at an interior room in a cold water tenement or a boarding house type situation.

That and overcrowded tenement buildings full of fire hazards going away helps push down density, but in this case for the better.

At some point you get reclassified as a tenement house or a hotel.

DC doesn't have a system comparable to the Berlin Metro, because it doesn't have the dense tenement neighborhoods to support such a system.

Zoning that controls the Floor-Area Ratio in many neighborhoods keeps old 4-story tenement buildings from being knocked down in favor of denser housing.

Those buildings themselves are worth nothing--they're old tenement housing for the most part.

Look at living conditions in a turn-of-the-century NYC tenement, and you'll be appalled.

That's why most of the housing in Brooklyn and Queens is former tenement housing built god knows how long ago and maintained like crap.

Stalin "fetched up in London in 1907, living in a Jubilee Street tenement flat – the future home of Golda Berk."[0].

> Williamsburg loft where there'd literally be a shower curtain separating my "room" (which was filthy) from a dark, tenement-like space with ~12 people in it.

When I first got here and was living on close to nothing, I found (on Craigslist) a Williamsburg loft where there'd literally be a shower curtain separating my "room" (which was filthy) from a dark, tenement-like space with ~12 people in it.