CBSE Class 10 Answered

• Tenements were owned by individual landlords and were not governmnet provided housing.
• They were cheap and unsafe in terms of the living conditions they provided to the inhabitants.
• Most of the tenements were in fact one room houses.
• Tenements were overcrowded, badly ventilated, and lacked sanitation facilities.
• Tenements were also likely to fall victim to fire hazards.

Chawls:

• Chawls were largely inhhabited by migrant workers working in the textile factories of Bombay.
• Chawls were constructed in the 'native areas' of the city of Bombay.
• Chawls were multi storeyed structures.
• They were owned by largely private landlords like bankers, merchants and building contractors looking to earn quick money by exploiting migrant workers.
• Each chawl was divided into smaller one-room tenements which had no private toilets.