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</div> <div style="clear: both">Around the same time, novelist Charles Dickens took a strong interest in housing condititions of the London poor. Carter [2007] observes:&nbsp;</div> <blockquote><div style="clear: both">''"Charles Dickens showed great concern for the despicable conditions of London slums and campaigned for their improvement. His hatred of slums and the governmental practices that allowed them to exist is especially apparent around the time he began conceiving and writing Bleak House (published in installments from March 1852 through September 1853). In the new preface to Martin Chuzzlewit of November 1849, he upholds literature's utility in social activism:<br/> <br/> "In all my writings, I hope I have taken every available opportunity to showing the want of sanitary improvements in the neglected dwellings of the poor" (qtd. in Butt, p. 11). He published several articles on the subject, such as "Health by Act of Parliament, "A Home Question," and "Commission and Omission," in 1850 editions of Household Words. Again in 1850, he made a speech to The Metropolitan Sanitary Association condemning slum landlords and local politicians and, in 1852, he advised philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts on the model flats she was financing for London's Columbia Square (Blount 341). In Bleak House, the theme of sanitation, or the lack thereof, surfaces prominently in Dickens's treatment of the brick-maker's house and Tom-all-Alone's. Dickens actually used "Tom-All-Alone's" as a working title for Bleak House, further demonstrating slums' importance for the novel."''</div> <div style="clear: both">&nbsp;</div> </blockquote>

"After twelve years the Workingman's Home was sold to a private investor, and it became known as the Big Flat."&nbsp;[Plunz 2016].For an interesting depiction of tenement/boarding-house life around the time of Workingman's Home's creation, see '''Walt Whitman''',&nbsp;"Wicked Architecture" (''Life Illustrated'', July 19,1856) - mainly about dwelling-houses.&nbsp;<br/> Part II from a series, "New York Dissected".&nbsp;<br/> https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00270.html.&nbsp; It's on Image 5 of the scanned pages.&nbsp;[Whitman 1856].

*Douglas, Paul. ''The Coming of a New Party''.&nbsp;(1932). [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004856913&view=1up&seq=11.  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004856913&view=1up&seq=11.&nbsp;] [version with images viewable online; text-only version downloadable as PDF].<br/> &nbsp;