Slums in the US (1800's -1900's)

The first article mentioned the many issues of mass migration into urban areas. One of these problems is slums forming in cities. I found this to be very interesting as previously I thought that slums don't exist and have never existed in the US. The population of New York City was doubling every century from 1800 to 1880. At the time, New York didn't have enough resources and infrastructure to hold this many people and this much growth. The first slums in the US actually started appearing in the  1700s, also in New York. But this quantity of growth was not present at the time, and these slums really began to grow exponentially in the 1800s. Slums in New York peaked in 1900 when around 100,000 out of the 2.9 million people in New York were living in slums. These Slums started to disappear in the early 20 century when higher quality, cheaper living conditions began to be built. But this only slowed down the growth of slums. Major slums didn't disappear in New York until the 1950s. Even today, New York is the American City with the most illegal housing being built. So while these slums stopped growing in the early 20th century, they still haven't completely disappeared.


Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/tenement-photos-jacob-riis-nyc-immigrants
https://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a33253/


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