Hooverville

Hooverville in the United States is a colloquial name for slums within settlements. They were mainly due to the global economic crisis in the U.S. and have been named after the former President Herbert C. Hoover. In this run-down neighborhoods to the homeless and other people without or with insufficient income in self-help shelter had built of sheet metal or other cheap materials. The settlements were sometimes tolerated by the authorities, but it also came against evictions, for example, certain road areas to keep open for the passage. In Central Park in New York City, for example, existed about 1931 to 1933 between the 79th and 86th street, such a poor settlement in the area in which is now the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond.

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• Poverty
• Local form of settlement
• Society ( United States)
• Urban planning (United States)
• Great Depression