Life in a tenement was often crowded, unsanitary, and lacking in basic amenities. Families lived in small, cramped apartments with poor ventilation and shared bathrooms. Tenement buildings were often overcrowded, with multiple families living in close quarters, leading to privacy issues and increased risk of disease transmission.
Overcrowding and Tenement Houses.
Tenement housing is a rundown apartment that mostly immigrants used to survive because they wanted a better life in America. It was also filthy, unclean, and wreaked.
Life in a tenement was not good. It was really small and crowded. There usually was many immigrant families living in one tenement apartment. There was no plumbing. You had to get water from a faucet on the main floor of the tenement and bring it back up to your apartment. If you had to go to the bathroom there was a bucket for the whole tenement and when it was full someone had to bring it out to the street and dump it.
it was dark, cold, no running water or working toilets.
Cooperatives are not associated with tenement living.
This tenement is slated for demolition next month.
The Tenement Year was created in 1988-03.
Tenement is a noun, as in an apartment or a room rented by a tenant
it was rough because when immigrants came they were poor and had to rent crowed tenement
Additional information regarding the Tenement museum located in New York, can be found on the Tenement's website. Wikipedia also has a general write up regarding the Tenement museum.
a tenement is a crowded apartment building built to become a slum.
Tenement Symphony was created on 1991-10-04.