During the economic boom, cities were prosperous but after the Great Depression, poverty increased drastically. Unemployed people lived with relatives, in the streets, or in makeshift settlements known as "Hoovervilles", as seen in a photo of one in Seattle, Washington. Residents of Hoovervilles were unemployed migrants who constantly searched for work and relied on charity while living in poor conditions with inadequate shelter and malnutrition as they blamed Republican President Hoover for their situation.

1. TP-HISTORY
TASK 1:
PROSPEROUS CITIES DURING THE BOOM:
POOR HOOVERVILLE AFTER THE DEPRESSION:

2. Task N°2
Source 9
In Source 9, we can see a Hooverville on wasteland in Seattle, Washington.
In the urban areas, there were lots of unemployed people, which lead them to
live on their relatives houses, or even in the streets. These people constantly went
from town to town looking for work, and were fed by charity workers. Because of this,
as we said before, every town had a Hooverville. Hoovervilles were shanty towns
with improvised poor huts. Migrants lived in here while they were looking for work.
Living and health conditions were terrible, and people living in these areas suffered
malnutrition. Moreover, they were called “Hoovervilles”, because they thought that
the Republican president Hoover was the one to blame.