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title: "Why were tenements a difficult place to live for the urban working class?"  
description: "Why were tenements a difficult place to live for the urban working class?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-05-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42223/why-were-tenements-a-difficult-place-to-live-for-the-urban-working-class  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why were tenements a difficult place to live for the urban working class?

Why were tenements a [difficult place](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42385/why-was-the-wilderness-such-a-difficult-place-to-do-battle) to live for the [urban](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/332531/smart-cities-technologies-and-strategies-for-sustainable-urban-development) working [class](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12089/arrays-in-java-determining-class-of-an-array-part-8)?\
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