Room Overcrowding and the Lodger Evil

Veiller, Lawrence

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“…60 In Panel A of Table 8, we proxy for congestion using the number of people living as boarders and lodgers per 1,000 inhabitants. 61 Lodging and boarding were common in immigrant households and associated with overcrowding at the time (Abbott 1936;Park and Kemp 2006;Veiller 1913). We find that cities with higher quota exposure experienced larger declines in the number of people living as 60 At the time of writing, there is a coding issue with the IPUMS complete census enumerations-each household is coded in a unique dwelling in 1920, 1930, and 1940.…”

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“…Instead of blaming immigrants, several public health officials regarded poor housing conditions in urban slums as the main contributor to the spread of infectious diseases and the reason for the positive correlation between immigration and mortality (Addams 1911;Krieger and Higgins 2002;Stella 1908). The efforts of social reformers like Jacob Riis increased public awareness of healthrelated housing concerns, but overcrowding and poor sanitation still characterized US cities when the quota acts were implemented (e.g., Abbott 1936;Park and Kemp 2006;Veiller 1921).…”

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How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in U.S. Cities

Ager

Feigenbaum

Hansen

et al. 2023

Review of Economic Studies

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Fears of immigrants as a threat to public health have a long and sordid history. At the turn of the 20th century, when immigrants made up one-third of the population in crowded American cities, contemporaries blamed high urban mortality rates on the newest arrivals. We evaluate how the implementation of country-specific immigration quotas in the 1920s affected urban health. Cities with larger quota-induced reductions in immigration experienced a persistent decline in mortality rates, driven by a reduction in deaths from infectious diseases. The unfavorable living conditions immigrants endured explains the majority of the effect as quotas reduced residential crowding and mortality declines were largest in cities where immigrants resided in more crowded conditions and where public health resources were stretched thinnest.

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How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in U.S. Cities

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Feigenbaum

Hansen

et al. 2023

Review of Economic Studies

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“…It established maximum lot coverage and minimum sanitation standards, outlawed windowless rooms, and would over time dramatically improve housing conditions (Veiller, 1910(Veiller, , 1914. One of its primary proponents, Lawrence Veiller, was also an early contributor to the American Journal of Public Health; his model housing ordinance proposed transferring the responsibility for code enforcement to local public health agencies (Veiller, 1911(Veiller, , 1913.…”

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The Routledge handbook of planning history

Meller

2018

Planning Perspectives

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The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges.A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history.

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Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem

Robertson

White

Garton

et al. 2012

Journal of the History of Sexuality

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moted by the black middle class as a means of advancing the race toward equality. On other occasions, however, he was less certain of the propriety and order of black home life. Du Bois shared with reformers of both races a concern that many residences in growing urban neighborhoods were so overcrowded that their occupants lacked privacy, causing them to be corrupted by lodgers or pushed out into commercialized public spaces where men and women freely mixed. Such anxieties were rarely supported by evidence of what actually happened in homes.^ Instead, reformers foUowed

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Room Overcrowding and the Lodger Evil

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How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in U.S. Cities

How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in U.S. Cities

The Routledge handbook of planning history

Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem

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