When people talk about tenements, they are usually referring to old, dirty, and dangerous buildings. These buildings were usually built near the edge of a city, so they could get a lot of people in close proximity.
The tenements were built so that the poor could live near the rich.
The tenements are a reminder of the city's past.
noun
a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
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The building of the former school is renovated and used as a tenement.
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There were then fourteen tenements in the rents.
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These became tenements in the 19th century.
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Detroit was not, a city of squalid tenements in 1967.
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The labourers lived in cramped tenement blocks.
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In this yard, daily and public life of the tenement unfolds.
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His body was found in the hallway of a Manhattan tenement.
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Acrobatic Tenement is the debut album from At the Drive In, released in 1996.
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Buck, now in a state of dilapidation, and let in tenements occupied by pitmen.
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Here, parcel B is the dominant tenement, and parcel A is the servient estate.