No one in my mother's family--growing up in the tenements of Brownsville, Brooklyn--even considered homeownership an achievable goal.
But in this early work you can also see his emerging left-wing sympathies for these boys of the slums and tenements.
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Close to 120 years have passed since Riis published How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.
Grew up in Hoboken, part of the Latino community that got its heart burned out in the eighties, tenements turning to flame.
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All this history wells up in Shanghai, where a determined researcher can still find Stars of David decorating old tenements in the French quarter.
Factors manage properties and estates for landlords or in tenements in which several owners of individual flats contribute to the factoring of communal areas.
The buildings were considered pioneers in the "light-court" model of tenement development, intended as an alternative to the dark and unventilated tenements common at the time.
In Riis' view, "the tendency of the tenements and of their tenants is all the time, and rapidly, downward, " as he wrote in How the Other Half Lives.
Wearing a black wool cap pulled down against the biting chill of a Chicago winter morning, Vallas bounds up to the doors of tenements on the city's gritty South Side.
It will provide for how the land register is to deal with common areas, both within tenements and in other places where property is shared, such as driveways and gardens.
But she may have learned some of her most memorable lessons as a young prosecutor, following police into abandoned tenements and tracking down witnesses on the grimy streets of New York.
It's their home, even if the neighborhoods of prefabricated high-rise tenements seem bleak, the list of free-time activities is limited, and several of their friends have already had problems with the skinhead groups that are gaining in popularity.
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