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Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
AICP provided modest financial assistance and hired middle-class “visitors” to encourage the adoption of Protestant, middle-class values. AICP also implemented reforms to improve the quality AICP became a major charitable organization in New York. AICP worked closely with COS in investigating and providing charity to the poor. In 1939 the two organizations merged to form the Community Service Society. -
Tenement House Act
The Tenement House Act defined what a tenement was and tried to add sanitation to the tenements. Most immigrants, especially in large cities, lived in what were called flats, or small apartments. Most had no windows, and no indoor restroom. The Tenement House Act had good intentions, but it wasn't carried out, so it didn't do much for tenants -
The Dumbbell Tenement
Improved access to light and air while still guaranteeing a reasonable return for developers.with wide ends and a narrow middle created by an airshaft on each side of the building . 20,000 dumbbell tenements were built .This became the standard form of housing for New York’s poor families. -
The Tenement House Act of 1879
the requirement that every bedroom in new constructions have a window open to the outdoors. offered few remedies for the ongoing dangers of tenement life. -
Charity Organization Society
The Charity Organization Society (COS), created in 1882, represented a more successful effort to “scientifically” organize charity. AICP worked closely with COS in investigating and providing charity to the poor. In 1939 the two organizations merged to form the Community Service Society. -
Tenement House Exhibition
Organized an exhibition on tenement housing so that “no one concerned could longer neglect taking action looking toward the improvement of the living conditions of the working people of New York.” -
Tenement House Act of 1901
Required one indoor toilet for every two families. waste removal, and fire safety,to bring light and fresh air to bedrooms,all public spaces inside the buildings to be lit by either natural light (through windows and skylights) or artificial light (powered by gas or electricity). -
First "public house" is built
"Public houses" were the new tenements after the Multiple Dwellings Law was pased in 1929. The new apartments were managed by the local and federal government.
