HOORVERVILLES

Hooverville was the name by which settlements built by the homeless during the Great Depression in the United States were known. They have this name because the President of the United States at the time was Herbert Hoover and supposedly sank the country into recession.

Homelessness was present before the Great Depression, and homeless and unemployed were common sights in the 1920s but the economic crisis increased the number and concentrated in nearby urban settlements to soup kitchens run by charities


Authorities did not officially recognize these Hoovervilles and sometimes eliminate the occupants for trespassing on private land , but they were often tolerated or ignored by necessity. The New Deal puts special aid programs to the homeless in the Transitional Federal Service (FTS ) , which ran from 1933-1935 on.