the New York Tenement House Act, which outlawed rear tenements, and also was the first official document to supplement a written description of tenement housing with photographs. In addition to this legislature, more reform was brought about by the New York Tenement House Act of 1901, which changed the minimum requirements of tenement housing to include reforms in the amount of light received by living quarters, increased fire safety regulations, more ventilation, restrictions on building height, and increased room space. For these reforms, Riis has almost been given full credit for inspiring these acts, especially the Act of 1901. Because of his poignant descriptions of the degradation of Mulberry Bend, this area was razed and replaced with a city park. How the Other Half Lives also inspired reform on a national scale. The Department of Labor published The Housing of the Working People in 1895, which was the second major tenement study of the decade. Jacob Riis was only the first to expose the conditions that the impoverished lived in using photographs. Some other works that detailed life in poverty were the images of the migrants during the Dust Bowl commissioned by the Farm Security Administration by Dorothea Lange; The Other America by Michael Harrington; and The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky. Notes References Pascal, Janet B., Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer, Oxford University Press. Riis, Jacob, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, Kessinger Publishing, 2004. External links How the Other Half Lives Complete text and photos online How the Other Half Lives at Project Guternberg How the Other Half Lives Portfolio at NYU Documenting the “Other Half” What Do the World and People Deserve The Housing of the Working People New York: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns (Episode 3) Tenement Museum of New York Photography in the United States Photojournalistic books 1890 non-fiction books Five Points, Manhattan Progressive Era in the United States