A Hooverville has a measure of independence: you can build what is possible for you to build and improvise as possible. I don’t mean to romanticize the reality of living in a tent in the woods.

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 ...

Michael Oxford, the host of CaliBased, posted a video on May 31 of massive temporary houses built along service roads that open up into main roads in Hooverville, Oakland.

Hooverville Orchards, located at 1101 Wallace Road, Placerville, offers visitors many fruit varieties including cherries, peaches, nectarines, plumbs, pluots, Asian pears, European pears, blueberries, ...

Thousands lost their homes during the Great Depression, and many ended up in shantytowns known as Hoovervilles, sarcastically named after President Hoover.

The Hooverville in Central Park was not the largest, or around for the longest, but something about that small group of shacks surrounded by some of New York's most impressive, expensive buildings ...

The Amherst Historical Society is inviting the community to come experience the 1930s “Hooverville” Great Depression Living History event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 18 at Sandstone Village ...

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 low ...

The Doctor and Martha Jones arrive in 1930s New York City and wind up investigating a string of mysterious disappearances. Backed by the residents of Hooverville, this leads them to discover that ...