Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns - NYTimes.com: "Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno is dealing with an unhappy déjà vu: the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles, illegal encampments of homeless people that are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shantytowns. At his news conference on Tuesday night, President Obama was asked directly about the tent cities and responded by saying that it was “not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours.”"
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Why are they still calling them "Hoovervilles"? Hoover didn't have a whole lot to do with this. Can we find somebody to name them after who is a little more directly related to the problem?
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