Housing options for working class:
House on the outskirts of town causing problems with transportation.
Rent a small room in a boarding house.
Trasportation:
Water
street cars started in 1873, in san francisco
electric subway in boston in 1897
struggle with repairing mass transit
demand for more transit system
Water sanitation and crime:
most homes did have indoor pluming
people had to get water from faucets on the street
1870s filtration and chlorination in 1908
Sanitation
Sewage factories garbage
sewer lines and sanitation departments created in 1900
Crime
more people less control and more crime
Settlement Houses
it was ran by middle class educated women.
it had classes like english health and painting
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