Tenements+jw

back A tenement is any of various forms of corporeal property (as land) or incorporeal property that is held by one person from another. Immigrants from abroad joined rural Americans in search of jobs in the nation’s cities. These newcomers to the city were often forced to live in hastily constructed and overcrowded tenement houses with primitive, if any, sanitation facilities. The “dumbbell tenement” was the most infamous housing of this type.