1) Depression shantytown 2) Depression-era shantytown 
A `Hooverville` is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee . ==Bac.....
Colloquial term for any shantytown built by the unemployed and destitute in the USA during the Depression 1929-40, named after US president Herbert Hoover whose policies were blamed for the plight...
Hooverville is American slang for a shanty town, or a place where the homeless go to sleep.
American slang for a shanty town, or a place where the homeless go to sleep.
a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.