One of the most enduring legacies of the Great Depression is the image of homeless families, huddled together in small shanty-town communities. Dubbed Hoovervilles, named for the seemingly apathetic President Hoover, these towns were a blight on the image of Capitalism, showing the collapse of a system that less than a decade earlier boasted of unparalleled material success. As World War II and the commercialized consumerization of the Boomer generation prevailed, the image of the Hooverville was relegated to something of the past, something that could never happen again, a past failure that has now been corrected. It could not happen in this day and age, right? Wrong!

The receding of the suburbs is turning major cities inside out. The unfortunate and the desperate are flocking to new gatherings. The 1930s townships made of scrap wood and metal have been replaced with 21st Century plastics and plywood. New communities of hundreds huddle around 6 porta-poties and very little running water. The recent rise of these tent cities, signifies the end of our outdated American Dream. They’re continually springing up all over the country in church …