 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mumakore matatu pashure pokuputsika kwemusika wemari muna 1929, mabhangi 50 ePhiladelphia akavharwa. Paavo vaviri bedzi vakanga vari vakuru, Albert M. Greenfields Bankers Trust Company neFranklin Trust Company. Masangano okuchengetera nemakweretesi akatarisanawo nezvinetso, nechikwereti chezvivako 19 000 chakavharwa muna 1932 bedzi. Pakazosvika 1934, 1,600 yemasangano 3400 okuchengetera nemakweretesi akanga avhara. Kubva muna 1929 kusvika muna 1933, kugadzirwa kwezvinhu zvomunzvimbomo kwakaderera ne45 muzana; mari yaibhadharwa mumafekitari yakaderera ne60 muzana; kutengeswa kwezvinhu zvokutengesa kwakaderera ne40 muzana. Chakaipisisa pane zvose kwakanga kuri kuvaka, uko mibhadharo yakaderera ne84 muzana. Urovha hwakasvika pakakwirira muna 1933, apo 11.5 muzana yavachena, 16.2 muzana yavaAfrica vokuAmerica, uye 19.1 muzana yavachena vakaberekerwa kunze kwenyika vakanga vasina basa. Meya J. Hampton Moore akapa mhaka yenhamo dzezvemari dzavanhu, kwete kuDzvinyiriro Huru yenyika yose, asi kuusimbe nokupambadza, uye akataura kuti kwakanga kusina nzara muguta. Nokukurumidza pashure pacho, akadzinga vashandi vomuguta 3.500, akatanga kuderedza mari dzaibhadharwa, akamanikidza vanhu kuenda kuzororo vasingabhadharwi, uye akaderedza nhamba yezvibvumirano zvaipiwa neguta racho. Ikoku kwakaponesa Philadelphia mamirioni amadhora, uye nhamburiko dzakadzivirira guta pakusagona kubhadhara zvikwereti zvaro, asi dzakanga dzisingafarirwi pakati pavasina basa. Guta racho raivimba nemari yehurumende kuti ripe mari yokuyamura. Mutsivi waMoore S. Davis Wilson akatanga zvirongwa zvakawanda zvakabhadharwa naFranklin D. Roosevelts New Deals Works Progress Administration, pasinei nekupomera chirongwa ichi panguva yemushandirapamwe wake wedunhu. Pakwakanga kuine mabasa akawanda kwazvo aibhadharwa neWPA muna 1936, vanhu 40 000 vokuPhiladelphia vakapiwa mabasa mupurogiramu yacho. 