informal settlement

noun

1. euphemistic.
   a squatter camp

Example Sentences

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

Just behind the killing ground is a small informal settlement in Hamar Jajab district - full of crumbling dwellings and makeshift shelters where about 50 families live on the site of what used to be a police academy.

From BBC

Ms Smith had previously told local publication The Daily Voice that she had not given up hope of finding her daughter following her disappearance outside their home in an informal settlement.

From BBC

She was left in the care of her mother's boyfriend, Jacquin Appollis, in an informal settlement, when she went missing.

From BBC

The veterans named the informal settlement Favela Hill after a highly resilient flowering plant found in the northeast.

From Seattle Times