informal settlement
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After months of preproduction, “Barrio Triste” was shot over five days in the barrio of El Paraíso, an often-maligned informal settlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Sporong is an informal settlement about 50 kilometres from Johannesburg, South Africa's economic capital that was built on a gold rush 140 years ago.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
At the moment he lives in the shadow of his former home, where other former Usindiso building residents have put up shacks in an informal settlement known as Emaxhoseni.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
Two weeks after Joshlin's disappearance from her modest shack in the Middelpos informal settlement, police arrested her mother Racquel "Kelly" Smith, Smith's boyfriend Jacquen "Boeta" Appollis, Steveno van Rhyn and Phumza Sigaqa.
From BBC ● May 1, 2024
The veterans named the informal settlement Favela Hill after a highly resilient flowering plant found in the northeast.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
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