tent cities
Canvas refugee communities
Tent cities are encampments of temporary shelters, typically housing homeless people or displaced populations.
The term often describes informal settlements that spring up in urban areas during housing crises: Tent cities appeared under freeway overpasses across the city.
The phrase can also apply to refugee camps or emergency housing after disasters, though it carries particular association with visible homelessness in affluent nations.
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- encampmentsTemporary group living sites
- shantytownPoor area of crude shelters
- tarpsWaterproof fabric covers
- makeshiftTemporary, improvised substitute
refugees · humanitarian crisis · displacement · squatters · cardboard · sleeping bags · sidewalks · eviction · poverty · shelters · temporary housing · public health · no trespassing · urban · crisis · outreach · social services · transient
- disaster responsedisaster relief, search and rescue, first responders, emergency preparedness, emergency shelter
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- homelessnesshomeless, homeless shelters, unhoused, homeless veterans, houseless
- KlondikeKlondike, stampeders, sourdoughs, sourdough, gold claims
- Occupy MovementWall Street, ninety-nine percent, human microphone, general assembly, mic check
tent citieshousing developments
Planned residential construction projects
apartment complexes · concrete structures · single-family homes · condominiums · housing estates
tent citiesgated communities
Enclosed neighborhoods with controlled access
luxury estates · mansions · affluent suburbs · Beverly Hills · Park Avenue
tent citiesplanned communities
Prearranged residential neighborhoods
public housing · subsidized housing · municipal housing · legal settlements · housing projects