Hoovervilles (we are not blaming anyone, huh?)

Hello there, I recovered the ownership of this blog (at last) Miss Janis Dumont went back to her time, I hope she didn't live in a Hooverville during the Depression, she was a really nice girl...
Hoovervilles were... well... a place where homeless people used to live during the depression. These kind of guettos still exist nowadays, they are called shantytowns.
These "neighbourghoods" were made of shanties. Shanties are houses made of trash and  very weak materials, these were not the ideal place to live, but at least people could sleep under a roof...

They were named after the "magnificent" (irony sold separately) president Herbert Hoover, that was usually blamed for the crisis, this term was invented by the democrat Charles Michelson, the propaganda director.

These Hoovervilles appear in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.

Photo taken from Simiocracia: Crónica de la Gran Resaca Económica