How many families lost their homes during the Great Depression? How does this relate to Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis?

Your question has a fairly simple answer:  around two million people lost their homes in the Great Depression and became homeless.  This is an interesting question because it has more to do with the Great Depression itself than it does with the book Bud, Not Buddy.  The wording of your question can be tweaked a bit in order to provide the proper statistic.  For example, “families who lost their homes” can also be referred...

Your question has a fairly simple answer:  around two million people lost their homes in the Great Depression and became homeless.  This is an interesting question because it has more to do with the Great Depression itself than it does with the book Bud, Not Buddy.  The wording of your question can be tweaked a bit in order to provide the proper statistic.  For example, “families who lost their homes” can also be referred to as separate “homeless people.”  During the Great Depression, it is a common fact that two million people lost their homes in the United States.

Further, we can see the effects of homelessness in the Great Depression in Bud, Not Buddy in many ways.  These effects are especially apparent when Bud and Bugs visit a “town” Bud calls “Hooverville.”  Bud soon learns that there are many of these “cardboard jungles” all over the United States because these people do not have anywhere else to live.  We can also indirectly see the effect of homelessness in the Great Depression by observing the house called “Grand Calloway Station.”  This is the house where all of the band members live.  They all live in one house because this is the only way they can afford shelter in between gigs.