Hoo•ver•ville - 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.
"Hooverville" became a common term for shacktowns and homeless camps during the Great Depression. There were hundreds throughout the country, each testifying to the housing crisis that accompanied the unemployment crisis of the early 1930's. They had gotten this name from when President Herbert Hoover was blamed for the intolerable economic and social conditions.
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.
"Hooverville" became a common term for shacktowns and homeless camps during the Great Depression. There were hundreds throughout the country, each testifying to the housing crisis that accompanied the unemployment crisis of the early 1930's. They had gotten this name from when President Herbert Hoover was blamed for the intolerable economic and social conditions.