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2. Tenement housing in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Tenement housing in Chicago. Tenement housing in Chicago was established in the late 19th and into the early 20th centuries. [1] A majority of tenement complexes in Chicago were constructed in the interest of using land space and boosting the economy. These tenements were built quite tall, often exceeding 3 stories, to accommodate as many low ...

3. Parkway Garden Homes - Wikipedia

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   Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I. He worked on several of the Chicago Housing Authority 's major housing projects ...

4. Single-room occupancy - Wikipedia

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   Single-room occupancy (SRO) is a type of low-cost housing typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes, or single adults who like a minimalist lifestyle, who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk.

5. Axis Apartments - Wikipedia

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   Axis Apartments is a sixty-story high rise apartment tower in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was completed in 1986 as Onterie Center. The name was a conflation of "Ontario" and "Erie", the streets at its two entrances. The building consists of two towers: a 60-story Main Tower and an 11 ...

6. Apartment - Wikipedia

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   A lower-rise apartment building on the left side of the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, juxtaposed next to a skyscraper apartment building. An apartment (North American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a ...

7. This tiny apartment costs $7 a month. Scoring one is like ...

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   Scoring one is like winning the lottery. Kim Do-yeon, a new tenant for the $7 apartment for youths, stands inside her room in Dongjak district in Seoul. The studio apartment Choi Soul recently ...