Shantytowns
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Shantytowns
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Shantytowns
By: Frankie Mazza
What is a shantytown?
- Shantytowns were towns composed of shacks
- They appeared all over the nation
- Most were built on empty land
- Several were located near soup kitchens
- Nicknamed 'Hooverville' after President Hoover
What they were made of
- Rusted-out car bodies
- Tents
- Piano boxes
- Orange crates
- Scraps of metal and stone
SEATTLE'S main hooverville
- The largest, longest-lasting, and best documented
- Stood for ten years and covered nine acres
- It had a population of 1,200 people
- Most were white and foreign-born
- It had been burned twice but was rebuilt
My reaction
- People never should have had to live like this
- But they had no choice and did what they had to
- President Hoover could have made better decisions
- If he had, the people might have been protected better
- They may have also had better places to live
Reaction continued
There are still millions of homeless people out in the world today. Most are ignored and expected to fend for themselves. People don't help because they think that someone else will; this is called the bystander effect.
How the homeless people live today is just like how the homeless people lived during the Great Depression. They get whatever they can to survive and build houses. Several use cardboard boxes as roofs and old shopping carts and crates for transporting their belongings.
I believe more effort should be used to help these people. Soup kitchens and other means of free food for the needy are still in use today, but ideas such as every school having fundraisers to donate to shelters would help greatly.
A little can go a long way.
How the homeless people live today is just like how the homeless people lived during the Great Depression. They get whatever they can to survive and build houses. Several use cardboard boxes as roofs and old shopping carts and crates for transporting their belongings.
I believe more effort should be used to help these people. Soup kitchens and other means of free food for the needy are still in use today, but ideas such as every school having fundraisers to donate to shelters would help greatly.
A little can go a long way.
