The "settlement houses" that were established in poor urban areas were designed to provides social services like daycare, education and health care for immigrants, women's and the poor.
Their main aim of settlement houses whether in Britain or in the United States is to reduce poverty and strengthen the education system.
For instance, a Hull House was a settlement house, an institution located in mainly poor and immigrant areas of major cities, which sought to assist the less fortunate through a variety of measures. In the late nineteenth century the U.S. rapidly urbanized, and settlement houses were designed to address the problems of growing cities.
