Nearly 5,000 hospitable Washingtonians have listed their homes or apartments on the online classifieds site Craigslist.com in hope of getting a financial boost during the week of Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration.
Rental offerings range from the outlandish to the opulent. For $50 per night, travelers can camp in a Rockville backyard with a less-than-subtle political message: “Up for rent is space in a tent city,” the advertisement said. “A neo-Hooverville,” referring to the shantytowns set up during the Great Depression presidency of Herbert Hoover.
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