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Although settlement houses failed to eliminate the worst aspects of poverty among new immigrants, they provided some measure of relief and hope to their neighborhoods.

The settlement movement began officially in the United States in 1886, with the establishment of University Settlement, New York. Settlements derived their name from the fact that the resident workers ?settled? in the poor neighborhoods they sought to serve, living there as friends and neighbors.

Settlement house residents often acted as advocates on behalf of immigrants and their neighborhoods; and, in various areas, they organized English classes and immigrant protective associations, established ?penny banks? and sponsored festivals and pageants designed to value and preserve the heritage of immigrants.

The settlement movement began officially in the United States in 1886, with the establishment of University Settlement, New York. Settlements derived their name from the fact that the resident workers ?settled? in the poor neighborhoods they sought to serve, living there as friends and neighbors.

Settlement houses were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.

In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr launched Hull House in Chicago. As word of these experiments spread, other settlements appeared in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Hull House inspired Charles Zueblin to organize Northwestern University Settlement in 1891.

Today, volunteer staff living in the settlement houses has given way to paid employees who live offsite; however, the settlement house movement's values of respect, reciprocity, and individual strengths live on in America's settlement houses and community centers.