Hooverville Who were the victims of Hooverville? Well I’ll tell you that all over the United States, people had suffered from the government actions. Banks failed the people becauase of the choices they had to decide for what they thought was for the best. Hooverville was a shantytown built by the people who had lost their homes, and their jobs. When president hoover came to power he had destroyed the economy. People blamed the president for the cause of Hooverville and his failure to end the Depression. Hooverville was a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the depression of the early 1930s. The victims of Hooverville were people who have lost their homes, their jobs, and most had lost their families to the government. …show more content…
Many people who lost their homes moved to neglected sections of towns. Half a million people who live in border colonias—unregulated subdivisions that lacks piped drinking water, sewerage, electricity and other basic most people take for granted. (Shantytown, U.S.A. #1). Competitions sent rents sky high on squalid shacks and cramped, dirty apartments. People couldn’t keep clean because of no clean water. Most people didn’t even have doors on their houses because where they couldn’t afford …show more content…
The government would not help the people in the United States; instead they stood by and watched them suffer. People had lost everything their homes, families, and their jobs. They raised oil prices and taxes to cut down peoples spending. President Herbert Hoover was blamed for the intolerable economic and social condition. Government need to encourage spending by reducing interest rates or, failing that, to inject spending into the economy directly by deliberately running temporary budget deficits. (Wasting Away in Hooverville #2). Fight Fed policy that caused the money supply to shrink by 25