Hooverville
Hooverville in Portland, Oregon (1936)
Hooverville is a colloquial name for slum within settlements in the United States . They were mainly created as a result of the Great Depression in the USA and are named after the then President Herbert C. Hoover . In already run-down neighborhoods, homeless people and other people with no or insufficient income had built self-help shelters made of sheet metal or other cheap materials. The settlements were temporarily tolerated by the authorities, but evictions also occurred, for example to keep certain areas of the road open for passage. In Central Park in New York City , for example, such a poor settlement existed from about 1931 to 1933 between 79th and 86th Street in the area where the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond is today.
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- ↑ Christopher Gray: Streetscapes: Central Park's 'Hooverville'; Life Along 'Depression Street'. In: New York Times. August 29, 1993, Retrieved July 31, 2018 (Report on the Hooverville in Central Park).