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Los Angeles’ 1936 ‘Bum Blockade’ Targeted American Migrants Fleeing Poverty and Drought During the Great Depression
The two-month patrol stopped supposedly "suspicious" individuals from crossing into California from other states. But its ...
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A Times project dives into the roots of the homeless crisis. One ...
But it has. At least in relative numbers, it was once even worse. California’s homeless population zoomed to 101,174 in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression — according to a census of ...
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A timeline of homelessness in Los Angeles
1933: Widespread homelessness during Great Depression A homeless census in 48 of California’s 58 counties finds 101,174 homeless people in a state with a population of 5.7 million.