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Trying to place the blame for this on Republicans is dishonest. Shantytowns have existed for years, and Democrats haven't done much to help. For example: > In
by leereeves 9y ago
Trying to place the blame for this on Republicans is dishonest. Shantytowns have existed for years, and Democrats haven't done much to help. For example:
> In December 2014, the city of San Jose shut down what was then America’s largest homeless camp — a shantytown that stretched for sixty-eight acres along Coyote Creek where a few hundred men and women were living in tents, shacks, treehouses, and adobe dugouts.
https://placesjournal.org/article/tent-city-america/ https://placesjournal.org/article/tent-city-america/
- emodendroket 9y agoHoover could have, with some justification, claimed that the term "Hooverville" was unfair when the situation was hardly of his own making, and yet he got stuck with it. Ultimately the buck has to stop somewhere.