tent city

[tent sit-ee]

noun

1. an area set up with tents, especially to house unsheltered, homeless, or displaced people.

Example Sentences

Over the last few weeks, a massive tent city has risen at the Orange County base — about 25 miles southeast of downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times

One involves a tent city in the desert that hides a portal to an extrajudicial jail for his enemies, both interstellar and domestic.

From Los Angeles Times

The facility, dubbed “Alligator Auschwitz” by critics, is a 3,000-bed tent city and prison in the Everglades.

From Salon

Tent City during the 'Year of the Mud' of 1997.

From BBC

Some were being carried away on stretchers, as ambulances zipped in and out of the sprawling tent city set up for the event.

From BBC

Related Words

• encampment 
• tent