The new hooverville shantytowns

[minbo]

I came across this on boingboing and thought that others might be interested. Since we are dusting off depression era central bank tools to bail out distressed banks, it seems appropriate to look at the resurgence of non-corporate level depression era events. As boing boing notes, wonder why they got it through BBS news reporting and not US news reporting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8

And if you are intersted in the hooverville reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

Large shadow city shantytowns, it's not just for Rio, Mexico City, India and other "developing" countries anymore!

[minbo]

Oh, the reference to the shadow city shantytown was from a really cool book: Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A Urban New World (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Cities-Billion-Squatters-Urban/dp/0415953618/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205950838&sr=8-1

[cattygurl]

This is actually really interesting stuff, thanks for posting it.