tent city
Makeshift outdoor community
A tent city is an encampment of tents serving as temporary or semi-permanent shelter, typically for homeless people or disaster refugees.
The term often describes makeshift communities that spring up in urban areas: The tent city under the overpass grew to over two hundred residents.
Tent cities may be tolerated, regulated, or forcibly cleared by authorities.
Poor area of crude shelters
- informal settlementUnplanned, unofficial housing area
- slumImpoverished urban district
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
sanitation · infrastructure · zoning · sprawl · marginalization · poverty · inequality · land use
Temporary military or refugee settlement
- unhousedLacking stable housing
- shelterProtected place or structure
- rough sleepingSleeping outdoors without housing
- transientsTemporary occupants or travelers
sleeping bag · cardboard · soup kitchen · outreach · panhandling · destitution · squalor · survival
One's regular paid work
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
- activistVigorous cause champion
- solidarityUnity among allies
movement · sit-in · resistance · vigil · rally · demands · police · eviction
Temporary outdoor shelter site
- asylumShelter from persecution
- humanitarianHelper of suffering people
- aidSupport given freely
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
resettlement · flee · warzone · persecution · sanctuary · border · stateless · survivors
shantytown
Poor area of crude shelters
- informal settlementUnplanned, unofficial housing area
- slumImpoverished urban district
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
urbanization · sanitation · infrastructure · zoning · sprawl · marginalization · poverty · inequality · land use · public health
encampment
Temporary military or refugee settlement
- unhousedLacking stable housing
- shelterProtected place or structure
- rough sleepingSleeping outdoors without housing
transients · sleeping bag · cardboard · soup kitchen · outreach · panhandling · destitution · squalor · survival · vulnerable
occupation
One's regular paid work
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
- activistVigorous cause champion
solidarity · movement · sit-in · resistance · vigil · rally · demands · police · eviction · blockade
camp
Temporary outdoor shelter site
- asylumShelter from persecution
- humanitarianHelper of suffering people
- aidSupport given freely
crisis · resettlement · flee · warzone · persecution · sanctuary · border · stateless · survivors · UNHCR
- temporary settlementsrefugee camp, base camp, mining camp, military camp, work camp
- Depression EraGreat Depression, Hooverville, breadline, dust storms, soup kitchen
- slumsslum, slums, shanty, shanties, shack
- campscamp, shelters, campsite, campground, summer camp
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- Hajjhajj, Mecca, Makkah, Kaaba, Arafat
tent cityhousing development
Planned residential construction project
built environment · permanent residence · residential neighborhood · concrete structures · apartment complex
tent citygated community
Restricted-access residential area
affluent neighborhood · mansion · estate · penthouse · suburb
tent cityplanned community
Pre-designed residential project
legal residence · municipal housing · urban development · government housing
city, tent, attention, intention, tents, politician, pretentious, contention, tenting