How long before we start documenting some modern-day Hoovervilles?

[PassingFair]

During the Hoover administration, conditions for displaced workers were so bad that "camps" of out-of-work familes sprang up around the country.
Are they reappearing today?
I think a documentary on this may be in order.
I live in the extremely cold mid-west, and there are no Hoovervilles in evidence up here, at this time of year.
What is your view from other states.
When I was in Florida a little while ago, I saw families living in their cars on the side of the highways, but maybe this is typical for immigrant laborers.
How 'bout it folks, any Hoovervilles springing up in YOUR neck of the woods?

[DBoon]

1. We've had them since the Reagan years

homeless encampments under highway bypasses, in down beaten industrial areas and the like. People living in cardboard boxes and transporting their life's possessions in a shopping cart.

Sadly, no one would care to document them, as most Americans now believe folks living this way deserve to do so.

[sally343434]

2. They have several here in Seattle

Only today they're referred to as "Tent Cities."

http://anitraweb.org/homelessness/faqs/tentcities.html

http://www.seattleu.edu/tentcity/

http://projects.is.asu.edu/pipermail/hpn/2001-July/004337.html

http://woodinville.adhostclient.com/events/TentCityInfo.asp

[PassingFair]

3. Do you think that the number of homeless FAMILIES is increasing?

I know of a couple of families around here that have lost their homes. Both moved "down south". One bought a trailer home and went to Tennessee.
I wish I had the time and money to research this issue.

[sally343434]

4. A shocking detail

A recent "census" of the homeless in King County (Seattle) done as thoroughly as possible indicated that the average age of a homeless person here was ... 9 years old.