tenement housing

The sweetheart deals include trade-offs to developers to build tall tenement housing structures on the condition that they add more affordable housing.

That's why, when Hamza beats up his wife on the smallest of pretexts, the neighbours in their congested tenement housing society turn a deaf ear to her cries.

Like so many others, they live in cheap, overcrowded tenement housing, where necessities such as electricity and proper ventilation are hard to come by.

Her memoir charts her path from tenement housing in New York City to a career in engineering and business, crediting her mother’s support.

In 1867, New York adopted a new tenement housing code that mandated a maximum number of residents to a toilet.