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Fires spread quickly
They would take out cities
Problem:Cramped, old, siery housing tenements
SOlutions: Cities put restrictions on building wood-framed structures in the center of the city
Low-income dwellings on the city's outskirts
The tenement house act of 1867 defined tenement for the first time and set construction regulation
Among these were the requirement of one toilet per 20 people
Tenement house law-1901
Outlaws the construction of new tenements on 25 foot lots and mandated improved sanitary conditions, fire escapes, access to light
Current tenements were updated and more than 200,000 new apartments were built over the next 15 years
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Most tenements were destroyed in 1920s and especially the 1930w with FDR'S ‘New deal’
The first fully government built public housing project opened in NYC in 1936
Problem:lack of Good Transportation
Solution
-Electric Streetcars-late 1800’s early 1900’s
-Automobiles
There were 300 cars in the Us in 1895, 18,000 in 1905, 459,000 in 1910 and 1.7 million on 1914</</body>
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