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From the latter half of the 19th century, the housing reform movement, aimed at improving the living conditions of lower social classes, fought for the construction of healthy and affordable housin

Until the early 1930s, a one-room flat was synonymous with a worker's flat, and this stigma was also carried by the small flats in the new tenements.

At the beginning of their expansion in Budapest, between 1907 and 1914, condominiums were built in various parts of the city.

Renowned author Zsigmond Móricz entered the literary world primarily as a writer focused on peasant life, serving as a literary sociographer of peasant society.

Architect Károly Hegedős created a nine-volume memoir series, each volume spanning 700–900 pages, covering his life from childhood up to the time of writing in the 1950s.

In Budapest, between 1920 and 1925, an average of only 1,149 new dwellings were built, while the capital's population continued to grow due to continuous immigration, although not at the turn-of-th

Ignác Wechselmann was born in 1828 in Nikolai, Silesia.

By the 1910s, the cholera barracks built by the municipality of Budapest in the last decades of the 19th century were completely ruined and in no way met the needs of the time.

In 1932 the economic crisis reached its lowest point. Unemployment was rising and more and more people were left homeless.

At the end of the 1920s, the municipality of Budapest announced a campaign promising a thousand new emergency public housing units.

Affordable housing for the majority of the lower classes and what was then known as the rent usury, provoked strong reactions from the public at the end of the first decade of the 1900s.

Social, healthcare and cultural facilities at the municipal estates