---
title: "Why did Jacob Riis call the tenements \"a bad bargain\"?"  
description: "Why did Jacob Riis call the tenements \"a bad bargain\"?"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-04-23  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41312/why-did-jacob-riis-call-the-tenements-a-bad-bargain  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history", "the cold war and the space race"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

---

# Why did Jacob Riis call the tenements "a bad bargain"? 

Why did [Jacob Riis](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41092/what-problems-does-jacob-riis-see-with-life-in-city-tenements) call the tenements "a bad bargain"?


---

Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41312/why-did-jacob-riis-call-the-tenements-a-bad-bargain

Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.