Question

How are settlements begun? ​

Answer 1

The settlement house movement began in Britain in 1884 when middle-class London reformers established Toynbee Hall, the first settlement house, in East London to provide social services and education to the poor workers who lived there.

Answer 2

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Settlement houses were safe residences in poverty-stricken, mostly immigrant neighborhoods in major cities such as New York, Boston, and Chicago. The settlement house movement began in England and then emerged in the U.S. in 1886 with the founding of University Settlement House in New York City.

Settlement houses had two functions.

$\bigstar$ They provided a safe place for poor residents to receive medical care and provided nurseries for the children of working mothers. They offered meals and employment placement services. They sponsored lectures and gave music lessons. They trained residents for jobs, and offered gymnasiums to train one's body. Some settlement houses had an on-site savings bank. Hull House built Chicago's first public playground.

$\bigstar$ settlement houses served a purpose for the reformers themselves, who were mostly college-educated women like Jane Addams. These women wanted to do things with the poor, not just do things for the poor.