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.

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 — ...

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.

“He left an enormous legacy,” said Eoin Ó Brion, the author of the just published ‘Flats and Cottages: Herbert Simms and the ...

MUMBAI: Around 150,000 tenements will be rehabilitated under the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) once the huge slum is transformed into a modern urban hub, according to officials from the Adani ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...