During the Great Depression, shantytowns sprang up on the outskirts of American cities. Populated by those who had lost jobs and been turned out of their homes, these "Hoovervilles" became an ...

The Mercury News (Page 1A, Dec. 17) focused on the RV community growing exponentially in Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. The number of homeless also continues to grow. It would be impossible ...

Have you seen these shots of a shanty town set up on Mercer and Houston Streets during the Great Depression? That's right, these (first two) photographs of men in suits reading magazines, smoking ...

Milwaukee's 'Hooverville' was located along the Milwaukee River near Lincoln Park in the 1930s. Various shanties are visible in the foreground with various buildings in the background. Note on back of ...

The Political Meal That Fed Families Herbert Hoover served as president through the first years of the Depression and was ...

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As the operations manager of an outreach center for the homeless here, Paul Stack is used to seeing people down on their luck. What he had never seen before was people living in tents and lean-tos on ...

LOS ANGELES — As local officials shut down Occupy Wall Street encampments across the nation, the political impact of the demonstrations is likely to grow, if U.S. history is any guide. The sites that ...

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Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart toward his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He's one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling ...