makeshift homes
Temporary cobbled-together dwellings
Makeshift homes are temporary shelters assembled from whatever materials are available—tarps, cardboard, scrap wood, shipping containers.
The term implies improvisation born of necessity rather than choice: Makeshift homes lined the riverbank after the flood.
It covers everything from disaster relief camps to homeless encampments, emphasizing the provisional nature of structures that serve as housing when permanent options aren't accessible.
- shacksCrude, flimsy dwellings
- shantiesRamshackle huts or sailors' work songs
- squattersUnauthorized occupants of property
- tent cityInformal settlement of temporary shelters
- tentsPortable fabric shelters
cardboard · tarps · shelters · hovels · camps · refugee camp · slums · lean-tos · refugee · plywood · scrap wood · corrugated · tin · tin roofs · shipping containers · blankets · pallets · encampments
makeshift homesmansions
Large, stately houses
luxury homes · estates · stately homes · villas · manor houses
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