Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.

Some crises never seem to change, and in New York, it’s our housing crisis. For those of low income, there simply isn’t enough that’s affordable. We declared a housing emergency after World War II — ...

A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of ...

The boy showed his strong arms. It is charged against this Italian immigrant that he is dirty, and the charge is true. He lives in the darkest of slums, and pays rent that ought to hire a decent flat.

Kathleen Delamare remembered living in the tenement slums of Dublin and the first day moving in to a new flat on Townsend Street on the south side of the city. The decades long tenant of what would ...

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 ...

Mumbai: With less than two months to go, the state govt has met only 25% of its target of building 1.5 lakh slum rehab tenements from 2022-25. Only 37,560 tenements were completed and occupation ...

Mumbai: The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) has proposed a steep hike in the corpus fund collected from developers for every tenement constructed under slum redevelopment projects. The ...