Jacob Riis
Howard Husock, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, talked about how Jacob Riis became involved in American housing history in NYC and the impact he had.
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Howard Husock, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, talked about how Jacob Riis became involved in American housing history in NYC and the impact he had.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Explain the significance of Jacob Riis' "Bandits’ Roost."
- How did his experience as a police reporter influence his work?
- According to Howard Husock, how did residents feel about their living conditions in the tenements in 19th century NYC?
- How does Howard Husock view the influence of Jacob Riis on the housing issue during that time?
- Where did the residents of neighborhoods like Mulberry Bend go when they were displaced?
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Lurid
- Municipal
- Optimistic
- Private Sector
- Public Housing
- Sensationalism
- Slum
- Tabloid
- Tenement
- Transitory
- Urban Reform
- Williamsburg Bridge
- Yellow Journalism