Tenements+ELR

Tenements
Generally speaking, tenements were what most people of the working class would live in. Tenements are comparible to our modern day apartments, but tenements were much more confined, unhealthy, unclean, dark, and packed. Families that lived in tenements generally only had one room to live in, with no servants and with both parents working jobs. Tenements could easily help spread diseases as so many people would live so close together in them. The first tenement in the United States was built in 1839, with more being built after that as the need for housing became more abundant.