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shantytowns

noun

plural of shantytown

as in favelas

a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties

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Recent Examples of shantytowns In the brightly billboarded carcass of a West Coast city, private security shields the corporate enclaves of a tech élite from the shantytowns of the economically superfluous. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 Their target was the Comando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, a criminal organization that has ruled these hillside shantytowns for decades. — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025 Farmers once proud of living and working their ancestral land were driven into poverty and forced into shantytowns. — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 These new shantytowns are plagued with substance abuse, violence and prostitution. — Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025

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Estrada had landed a pacu, a fish that affluent anglers travel thousands of miles to target in the jungles of South America.

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2026
Here, thick jungles offer unique adventures, from spotting wildlife like jaguars and tapirs to swimming beneath waterfalls or summiting Victoria Peak, the country’s second-highest mountain.

— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2026

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Not wanting to take up a bed at the Bishop Dudley shelter already overcapacity, Navarrete and Palmer ventured to a grassy area near Drake Springs with other encampments, something the Sioux Falls City Council voted two days later to restrict.

— Vanessa Carlson Bender, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 30 Aug. 2026
Homeless encampments, piles of trash, vermin, and car break-ins have bedeviled the 4000 block of Babcock Avenue in Studio City since the property was abandoned, said neighbor Clint Ledsworth.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

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