A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of ...

ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...

Herbert Hoover, raised in the country, is a champion of the small home owner. His committees and conferences and finally the Home Loan Bank system have all been designed to preserve the independence ...

Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.