as in favelas
a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties
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Starting in 2016, to help respond to spikes in immigrant crossings that had periodically overwhelmed border stations, Deployed began setting up tent encampments to ease the overcrowding.—
Jeff Ernsthausen,
ProPublica,
11 Apr. 2025 -
The county has rejected encampments as undignified, potentially unsafe solutions to the homelessness crisis.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Shantytowns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytowns. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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