Hooverville

Most large cities built municipal lodging houses for the homeless, but the Depression exponentially[3] increased demand.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal enacted special relief programs aimed at the homeless under the Federal Transient Service (FTS) which operated from 1933 to 1939, this did not though mitigate the prevalence of Hoovervilles.

[7] After 1940, the economy recovered, unemployment fell, and shanty housing eradication programs destroyed all the Hoovervilles.

The city of Seattle tolerated the unemployed living situation and imposed loose building and sanitation rules.

Photos from shantytowns across the country show images of families, including women and children, dwelling in their makeshift home.

Migrant workers and immigrants greatly suffered from the lack of work and made up a large portion of the Hoovervilles across the country.

His records show populations of Japanese, Mexican, Filipino, Native American, Costa Rican, Chilean, and Black men.

Roy noted that only the Filipinos and Mexican men were segregated, generally due to language rather than racial discrimination.