This shows how terrible the living conditions were for immigrants when they moved to America. This is what they had to live with because it was all they could afford with their low paying jobs. I thought living with five siblings was hard, but clearly not as hard as it would have been if we had moved here from a different country. “In many tenements, only the rooms on the street got any light, and the interior rooms had no ventilation (unless air shafts were built directly into the room). Later, speculators