tented communities 1933 film Spencer Tracy - not much has changed

In the USA there is an upsurge of tented communities, people are forced to live in dilapidated shanty towns. Made homeless by the current economical crisis.
in 1933 Spencer Tracy played a character in a film called - Man's Castle. about a tented community in New york. That was 80 years ago? USA the richest country in the world. the country that sent men to the moon.

nothing much has changed.  There is no desire to change it.