New York State Tenement House Act

Irish Emigration to New York City The Potato Famine - How, Why, and When the Famine Started Many historians equate the Irish immigration to America with the potato famine of the 1840s, but is is clear that a considerable number of Irish had made their way to Great Britain’s colonies on the North American mainland before 1800. For example, many Irish families came and settled the colonies in the early 1600s. Harbors and towns were named after settlers. Some of these settlers even became

1865-1900 Four years after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter the Civil War ended with the Union’s Victory over the Confederacy. Though the war was over, there were still many problems that needed to be resolved in order to reunite the states as a nation. The time period in which steps were taken to rebuild the nation is known as reconstruction. Reconstruction lasted from 1865 until 1877. The influence of reconstruction can be seen in the society and also in politics during that time period

Despite these deplorable tenement conditions of the late 1800s, federal policy-makers were sluggish about any kind of response;Public Housing Policy and Social Problem It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that housing became a policy issue in the United States. Housing didn’t become an issue until the cities began to create a huge amount of jobs which forced a lot of Americans from the countryside along with immigrants to rush to urban areas in large amounts. The housing arrangements were so poor that there

poverty and benefit the community at large by creating an economic infrastructure that utilizes the country’s resources and increases their tax base. These institutions first came into existence in the early 1800’s and were referred to as dwelling houses, which were local factories that generally had the same idea of the sweatshop that we have in today’s society. There

country that it is today. To a majority of the immigrants that had just come to the United States at the time, however, America appeared to be a country of chaos and desperation. The necessities that people could not imagine living without today, such as fresh air and sanitary houses, were often a luxury to these immigrants. Jacob Riis, the author of How the Other Half Lives, visited several areas in New York to observe the appalling living conditions that various immigrants were stuck in. After making

Nonprofits have been involved in U.S. housing since the early 20th century when the tenement house was the “labor housing” in urban areas like New York City. At the time, the tenements were controlled by private industry that were concerned about profit rather than the quality of life of their tenants (Bratt, 1998, pp. 139-156). The nonprofit response came in the form of so-called “Model” tenement buildings which like their free-market counterparts quickly devolved into slums (Friedman, 1968, pp

talked about the all the great opportunities they could enjoy. Norwegian- 1825-1826- The Norwegians that came to America were mostly Lutherans and priests and Quakers to avoid religious persecution. Most of the religious groups immigrated to Western New York in America. At that time and all the time America was the Home of the Free. So it was easy for the immigrants to love it. Russia- 1870-1880- Russian Jews had to escape quickly from the persecutions that started happening. Fleeing quickly the Jews

The progressive era was a time period during 1890-1913 when the United States was at the tip of changing its lifestyle to something better for everyone, especially the poor. During the 1920s, 105 million immigrants had come to the United States hoping for a better lifestyle, however that brought a drastic change in the demand of products needed in the US, which led businesses to focus on the quantity, rather than the quality. Although this urbanization brought industrialization, most of those immigrants

as the previous immigrants had already stitched themselves to the flag producing a resolute hatred for incoming immigrants, one of which was Salvatore Rossi. Having fled Italy in 1897 due to economic hardship, he pursued the “American Dream” in New York, by obtaining an education and landing an uncommon job within the U.S. Government. Italian immigrants in this period of time suffered extreme racial prejudice and experienced numerous obstacles in their process of immigration and

Jacob Riis - Riis was most famous for being a journalist and photographer. He photographed and wrote about the poor people in New York who lived on the Lower East Side in the slums and tenements. He had a book published in 1890 called How the Other Half Lives. He wrote this book so that attention would be brought on the poor and their living conditions in hopes that people would help them. He got the attention of Theordore Roosevelt, who was police commissioner at the time. Roosevelt and Riis