One strong gust of wind can be enough to flip one of these trailers onto its side.
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CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
2 Apr. 2026
In Valentine, 95 miles north of Presidio, the mayor received a request from a company called Frontier Development to set up a man camp with 200 trailers to house out-of-town construction workers, according to City Clerk Albert Miller.
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
Abdul Hadi spent his days hiding in hovels in distant parts of Syria, turning his mind obsessively over the old days of revolution, over fleeting encounters and terrible choices.
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Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
During the rainy season, their hovels turned into hovels on stilts.
Just south of downtown San Jose, about 100 people live on the banks of Coyote Creek, where footpaths and improvised bridges connect a community of tents and wooden shacks — the city’s last sprawling homeless encampment.
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Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
Most schools take place in mud huts or shacks shared by dozens of young men, away from public glare.
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Mogomotsi Magome,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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