tenements

Today, even the worst tenements in the densest cities have clean, running water, flushing toilets and smogless radiators.

Reminds me of tenements[0], with the exception that the apartments seem to have a higher construction standard.

They called them Tenements here and every self respecting character in Irish fiction grows up in one.

In Baltimore and Philadelphia mansions inhabited by old money sat blocks away from immigrant tenements.

Real estate regulation in its current form, especially in NYC, derives from the legacy of over-crowded tenements and massive blocks of slums.

Sometimes that is intentional, for instance, as a policy to get rid of tenements.

You need at least 4 story tenements to make rail based public transport viable.

Double the teachers' pay, double the security around the schools and provide secure bus rides to and from the projects and tenements.

The areas of previously highest density are the Lower East Side and East Village, formerly working-class immigrant enclaves with more tenements than highrises.

Those tenements we're putting up aren't places for people to live in, they're - they're hen coops.

There's a long, long history to this from shanty towns to tenements.

Developers were happy to build NYCs slum tenements when they weren't quantity-constrained.

The New York Times had an interesting piece on this last year[0]: "Manhattan was much more crowded in the early 1900s than today, especially in the tenements of the Lower East Side.

It's an interesting sentiment really- you see the same thing in pro-slavery sentiments during the 1800s- "oh, the Irish immigrants in Britain have it so much worse, look at these slaves, they don't live in cold tenements!