Slog tips are pouring in this morning that Hooverville—the bar on First Avenue S with free peanuts, hilarious bathroom graffiti, and an awesome staff—is on fire. One tipper writes: "Just drove ...

Twice the city burned them out, but in 1932, with the national jobless rate at 24 percent, the city let Hooverville stand. It stood for 10 years. It was a settlement of adult men, 72 percent white.

A census taken in March 1934 counted 632 men and 7 women, ages 15 to 73, living in 479 shacks along the tidal flat Hooverville. Of the population there, 72 percent of residents were white, with ...

In Seattle in the 1930s, hundreds of shacks stood from Harbor Island to First Avenue South. The men who built those scrap lumber, cast-off tin, and flatten ...

It was Great Depression 2.0, with new “Hoovervilles”—the name given by 1930s Democrats to the shantytowns that sprang up on the Republican President Herbert Hoover's watch—apparently back ...

Amherst Historical Society will host the Experiencing 1930s “Hooverville” event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at Sandstone Village, 736 Milan Ave. in Amherst. Focused on life in the 1930s ...

Donald Yannacito: Housing: In a time of prosperity, Boulder has a Hooverville. During the administration of President Herbert Hoover, 1929 to 1933, a crisis of housing occurred due to unlivable ...

Now, when we look at the "Hooverville" period, we also see a 30% contraction in US GDP. That means we would see a current GDP number of -30.0%!! But, today we see a number calling for an expansion ...