- Largest Hoovervilles lay in the center of New York's Central Park
- Unemployment figures were very high, and many people did not have the money to pay their rents or mortgages caused the production of Hoovervilles
- President Herbert Hoover had not responded to their needs or done enough to stop the depression, called their communities "Hoovervilles."
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Hoovervilles
Hoovervilles: built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s
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