Comptroller Scott Stringer released a report of the city’s public housing conditions on Monday. The good news? “Nearly 125 years after Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives, exposing ...
ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...
Dark, filthy, insanitary city stink-holes were one of President Hoover’s pet aversions. During his administration the R. F. C. voted $1,500,000,000 for loans to ‘limited-dividend housing corporations ...
The word tenement conjures up images of New York City at the turn of the century, but a pair of such buildings in Scranton became a rallying point for social service agencies pushing for better, safer ...
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