Which of the following best describes how the working poor lived during the Second Industrial Revolution?

As industrial cities grew during the Second Industrial Revolution, many low-wage workers could not afford spacious or well-maintained homes. They commonly lived in crowded, often unsanitary tenement buildings, which were divided into small apartments for many families. So “tenement buildings” is the best description; modest townhouses were generally beyond most poor workers’ means.

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