Many immigrants fled their home countries to America in the hopes of following their dreams. To accommodate for the large population cities evolved into large crowded apartment buildings known as tenements. These inexpensive building were very small for an entire family and lacked the proper lighting, plumbing, and ventilation making the winters harsh and summers roasting hot. Many of these buildings also lacked the proper maintenance causing unhealthy conditions. This way of life was the perfect way for disease to spread. Even with all these horrible conditions about 2.3 million people were living in nyc in these tenements.Although these buildings provided people with a place to sleep it did not give them enough to live a healthy life. This way of life made America almost look like a third world country.
Yes, isn't it sad? and yet there are still so many places throughout the world where people live like this and worse. I hope you get to live long enough to see a world where poverty is a thing of the past.
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