Before independence, Dublin had a reputation of having some of the worst slums in the United Kingdom. The housing situation ...

Nearly a quarter of Dublin’s population was living in one-room tenements in 1911, according to newly released data from the ...

Marie Hippenmeyer/AFP/Getty ImagesIn the favelas of São Paulo, the World Bank is making incremental improvements, like sewers and potable water. Close to 120 years have passed since Jacob Riis ...

Two well-known Glasgow tower blocks are to be blown down in a planned demolition on Sunday. Numbers 305 and 341 Caledonia ...

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 ...