These were typical slums. In the latter area, tenants renting fairly larger one- or two-room dwellings occupied the majority of the remaining 60 per cent. The above statistics infer that, by the time the industrial revolution was over, the housing conditions of the poor, had generally been improved to some extent, probably due to rising wages.) Another type of nagaya was the “communal nagaya” shown in Figure 3, a new type of tenement that appeared as a result of the Inn-Business Control Regulation of 1887.