Tent city

Tent city becomes home in tough times
這個tent city出現在美國西雅圖。
就像日本一樣，這些人失去了工作、房子。
只好自己在停車場搭tent來住。
Residents call it Nickelsville. The name takes a page from the infamous "Hooverville" shantytowns of the Great Depression that were named for a president many thought did not care about their economic hardships.
居民稱這個tent city為Nickelsville。
這個名字是模仿經濟大蕭條時代惡名遠播的Hooverville。
因為大家普遍認為Hoover總統不關心人民福祉。
註1：Nickel是西雅圖市長的名字。

Hoo·ver·ville 就是現在的Tent city
A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s.

Tent city
an area set up with tents, esp. as to house homeless or displaced persons.
take a leaf out of someone's book and take a page from someone's book
to behave or to do something in a way that someone else would.
take a leaf out of somebody's book to copy something that someone else does because it will bring you advantages