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tenement

noun as in run-down and overcrowded apartment house

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In the first four years of her life, her family relocated 11 times, moving in with relatives after evictions, or into rat-infested Philadelphia tenements.

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Scenes switch effortlessly from Prague, with its shadowy bridge looming over the Moldau, to a Brooklyn tenement, a busy office, a tony art gallery, and the roof of the Empire State Building.

In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.

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Roads have been cordoned off and homes evacuated after a derelict tenement building collapsed in Glasgow.

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A chihuahua has been rescued from a building destroyed by fire in Perth after surviving for nearly two weeks in the tenement.

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