relief camp
Disaster housing site
Relief camps are temporary settlements providing shelter, food, and basic services to people displaced by disaster, war, or economic crisis.
The term often carries connotations of minimal conditions and government administration: Thousands fled to relief camps after the flooding.
In Canadian history, relief camps specifically housed unemployed single men during the Great Depression, becoming sites of labor unrest and political tension.
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- tentPortable fabric shelter
- tent cityInformal settlement of temporary shelters
- shelterProtected place or structure
- temporary housingNon-permanent place to live
displaced · aid · aid worker · humanitarian · evacuation · crisis · natural disaster · food · food line · water · rations · cots · blankets · sleeping bag · Red Cross · first aid · care package · survivors
relief campgated community
Restricted-access residential area
affluent neighborhood · safe haven · affluent suburb · homeland · home country
relief campdetention camp
Place confining people involuntarily
internment camp · prison camp · labor camp · concentration camp · POW camp
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