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Hooverville
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Hoo·ver·ville  (hvr-vl)
n.
A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s.
[After Herbert Clark Hoover.]
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During the great depression, many individuals lost their homes and were forced to take up residence in makeshift homes that became part of larger shanty towns dubbed Hoovervilles.
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Then no mechanism existed to stop the elevator from crashing down from prosperity's penthouse to a basement of joblessness, homelessness, and the shanty towns or Hoovervilles that speckled the map of America.
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