Hoovervilles

===﻿**Hoovervilles** **﻿- A non- offical town filled with homeless people. **=== ===**The law didn't take much action to these towns. Unless they were trespassing on land. Then they would shut down the camps, but they couldn't do much do to all the health problems the Hoovers created in the area. **=== ===**The houses that they lived in were mostly tents or boxes. People who were experienced in building sometimes made themselves stone houses. **=== ===**In these houses some housing items included sinks, small beds, and newspaper blankets. Most of the other homes were made out of crates and card board. These towns greatly increased during the great depression. Which was soon after Hoovervilles started to come about. **===

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A Hooverville is a community of shacks, these Hoovervilles were named after the president during this time Herbert Hoover. Hoovervilles started during the time of the great depression.There were hundreds of these communities throughout the country. Hoovervilles were similar to our cities today because they had mayors. Communities such as these generally were on the outskirts of cities. And the largest of these communities had about one thousand two-hundred residents. Most of these towns residents were men. By the 1940's Hoovervilles started getting torn down. But in 2009 this term was coined again for poor residents starting to make a community to live in.

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I really liked the first link. :)


 * Nice job, group! The pictures that you found really help to put the idea of Hoovervilles into perspective. How interesting and unfortunate that the term "Hoovervilles" came back into our culture as recently as 2009. Thank you for your insightful research! -Miss Bartoe **