slum dwellers
Shantytown inhabitants there
Slum dwellers are people who live in slums—densely populated urban areas marked by substandard housing, inadequate sanitation, and poverty.
The term appears in policy discussions and development contexts: Programs to improve conditions for slum dwellers.
It's descriptive rather than pejorative, though it defines people by where they live rather than who they are.
- shantytownPoor area of crude shelters
- tin roofsLightweight metallic building tops
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- open sewersUncovered channels for wastewater
- shacksCrude, flimsy dwellings
makeshift homes · poverty · impoverished · squatters · inequality · tenements · hovels · dirt floors · deprivation · marginalized communities · community development · housing crisis · destitution · land rights · eviction · forced relocation · barrios · garbage
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- Disadvantageddisadvantaged, underprivileged, vulnerable, marginalized, needy
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
slum dwellersthe upper class
Wealthy, privileged social stratum
country club members · aristocrats · billionaires · landed gentry · homeowners
slum, dwellers, slums, slummed, slumming, slummy, dwell, dweller, dwelling