| Rents were horrendous for urban dwellers, with entire families doubling up in crowded single room tenements. |
| It was a day to make your spirit sink as Dundee shivered in the icy squalls of rain that repeatedly doused its pavements and tenements. |
| By the mid-tenth century, a dense townscape of streets and tenements was taking shape. |
| These are kids who grew up in tenements, high rises, government housing or row houses. |
| Much of this passed through the waterfront markets and industrial tenements of Dublin into the Irish interior. |
| Various diseases all too often swept through entire city blocks of tenements. |
