slum dweller
Poor neighborhood inhabitant
A slum dweller is a person who lives in a slum—an overcrowded urban area marked by substandard housing, poverty, and inadequate sanitation.
The term appears frequently in development policy and journalism: Slum dwellers often lack access to clean water.
It describes circumstance without necessarily carrying negative judgment about the residents themselves.
- shantytownPoor area of crude shelters
- tin roofSheet metal roofing
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- tenementMulti-unit urban dwelling
- hovelWretched small dwelling
dirt floor · marginalized · shack · makeshift shelter · ghetto · squatter · favela · resilience · gentrification · survival strategies · inequality · grassroots activism · affordable housing · informal settlement · open sewer · underprivileged · social exclusion · overcrowding
- dwellers
- class labelsaristocrat, beggar, bourgeois, commoner, elite
- unfortunatesvictims, unfortunate, wretch, poor soul, lost soul
slum dwelleraristocrat
Person of noble birth
billionaire · millionaire · estate owner · landed gentry · country club member
slum dwellersuburbanite
Outskirts area resident
exurbanite · villager · homesteader · farmer
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