Ihat was “reborn” during the renaissance?

The term Renaissance, literally means "rebirth" and was the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, where there was a surge of interest in classical learning, values, philosophies, and the study of humanism.

increase in population

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.