20世纪30年代初，胡佛村。那是大萧条时期人们失去一切后的栖身之所，也是沦为彻底流浪汉前的最后一道防线。

This time around, they won't even let us have a Hooverville. It will be straight to the street, so we can get collected to work fields in a private prison.

I'm curious who owned the land these cropped up on. Were they legal settlements or just tolerated

St. Louis had the largest Hooverville with its own self appointed mayor Gus Smith.

I know segregation was real strong during that time. Did African Americans have their own Hoovervilles?

Trumptown is coming.

People forget FDR went full marxist to save America and IT WORKED.

In Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck illustrates how the police would come and tell the "Hoovers" to clear out, then they'd burn the shacks down.

Not so fun fact...everyone always says there was no work during the Depression. Actually there were jobs available but for women, who did take them. Men refused to do women's work, so didn't work.

in a few years there will be Trumpviilles.

Is the third photo Central Park?

Modern folks are so ready with vanlife and tiny homes

My grandfather was born in 1925. He told me a story about helping his father move a chicken coop to a piece of property in Windsor, Ontario so that a young family could move into it. He remembered it vividly. It was something he thought about every time he drove by that place. It affected his outlook on poverty and finances for the rest of his life.

This is just fantastic! It's how countries all around the world have always dealt with homelessness: just let people build their own shack, and hopefully it becomes a proper informal neighborhood over time. Only western countries after 1945 have developed this obsession with criminalizing homelessness, criminalizing shelters, criminalizing living in your car and mercilessly hounding down people who cannot afford a home, while at the same time going the OCD way with building codes and zoning to make it impossibly expensive to build, rent or buy a home. Thus total homelessness was basically manufactured by laws, regulations and law enforcement. We have basically made it illegal to be poor.

Isn’t this how people in other countries live regularly Arent they just called “favelas”

Back before workers’ rights and the government working to support the poor and building up the middle class. We are reversing all that progress to go back to the Gilded Age, what Trump considerers “the best” era.

When we play too much fallout 4 and God is like "this is really what we want? Okay.."

elonville out in central texas, near his boring place... sure Zuk will build one.. then they will all make little hoovervilles.

Dogevilles!

Most people on the west coast already have “Hoovervilles”. They’re just called encampments now. They’ll start with a few groups and continue to grow until they become a nuisance. The cops will come in and run them off. Then they pop up somewhere else and repeat. [google search for Washington state homeless encampments](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=6d728ade57108e4f&hl=en-us&q=washington+state+homeless+encampments&udm=2&fbs=ABzOT_DnPN66xNYYiVBYF80MNa9-mD9FW2KvyJ7Ee6i9AfRy7R1eW7fYkhs9lmIjuzf1c814hZBiGsd-xVdQMnO74TAYLJAhYIGv5DZWk2prSDYpzr8sszhz84Ke34UXvtGMVqDsSZeZ-pCnCbJA9iMku2IJckgpo_imm8Y6-5lKdWtZbbm8o9a8RZj0j6pO8tufgnvfz1T2HYnSsrfpm4fK3KPvw0B6EO15cNADj7cYPlUxUXOLeKw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi80q7c3YyMAxXPM0QIHZhsK1UQtKgLegQIGRAB&biw=428&bih=743&dpr=3) It was becoming a big problem in Washington about the time we moved in 23. It was getting out of control trying to maintain a homeless population when all the red states, that receive money from the blue states, provide their homeless population with bus fare to WA and OR.

We’re actually a head of schedule this cycle

LOL way off topic but .. Idk wtf is wrong with me, but the idea of living in a shack like some of those pictured or a "mini house" is so appealing to me. Out in the country though lol not in a shanty town. Obviously these people were struggling to get by and many likely had other mouths they needed to feed. I have no wife, no kids, so I often think about hitting the road and living in a big van, or buying a few acres of woodland for a cabin or a tiny modular home type thing.

Next time they won’t allow Hoovervilles. They’ll just arrest people for being homeless

This isn't one step from....this IS homelessness. Those are shanty's built from garbage. They weren't paying rent. No home=homeless.

Will they call the 2025 versions TrumpTowns?

whats that giant building in the top right of the first pic?