Why were Hoovervilles important?

When defined, a Hooverville was a place where a large sum of people that were unemployed and were feeling the effects of the great depression on them. Hundreds of thousands of people lived in hundredes of Hoovervilles that were spread out from each other. The living style of the people in these Hoovervilles were different since they were forced to live in a place that was worn down and the houses they had were more like tents or sheds with little to no room. Even if the Hoovervilles had bad living conditions it allowed thousands of people to get some kind of living style that would have been better than what they had before. The Hoovervilles were later destroyed after the Great Depression had ended and the unemployment rate had gone down.