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Acre tenements were low-cost apartment buildings that housed working families in industrial American cities. For millions of immigrants and wage earners, these crowded blocks meant affordable shelter in cities where factory jobs could lift a family out of poverty—if only just barely.
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You climb narrow stairs, past doors that open directly onto hallways. Six families share a water pump in the yard. Inside your two rooms, sunlight barely reaches the back wall. Still, this is yours—a foothold, a place to build something.
Reflect
What does 'home improvement' mean when you have almost no space to improve?