Read the passage from journalist and photographer Jacob Riis about a German immigrant family living in a New York City tenement.

There were nine in the family: husband, wife, an aged grandmother, and six children. . . . All nine lived in two rooms, one about ten feet square that served as parlor, bedroom, and eating-room, the other a small hall-room made into a kitchen. The rent was seven dollars and a half a month, more than a week’s wages for the husband a father, who was the only bread-winner in the family.

–Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

What does this passage imply about the impact of immigration at this time?

Housing was crowded and unsanitary, partly because of the arrival of millions of immigrants.
American cities had few problems accommodating the immigrants who arrived in the late 1800s.
Housing in New York City was tightly regulated and monitored by city officials.
New York City had started the building of massive public housing projects.