Tenements were usually found in large industrialized cities, providing living quarters for large influxes of immigrants and factory workers
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The tenements would get crowded and a disease would form and spread.
the cause of the problems and the cause of the people living there
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Urban slums were the neighborhoods consisting of tenements that arose in U.S. cities. These slums were often impoverished, polluted, and unsanitary.
cheap housing units created when cities became packed with people during the industrial revolution. They were called dumbbell tenements because the design of the building, which looked like a dumbbell, had many housing units sharing a corridor.