The phrase "afflicted residents" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe residents who are suffering from a particular issue, such as a disaster, disease, or hardship.
Example: "The government has announced a relief package to support the afflicted residents of the flood-affected areas."
Alternatives: "suffering residents" or "distressed residents".
Perhaps that's because this year's extreme weather has afflicted residents of red and blue states equally.
Ultimately, Miami government officials had to spend additional funding on municipal services to aid afflicted residents, which caused the city to lose additional revenue.
According to brokers and afflicted residents, the top three reasons to loathe a neighborhood after dusk are danger (or at least the perception of danger felt on eerily underpopulated streets), boredom, and a hyperactive social scene.
Twitter, which has been susceptible to occasional outages, stayed up glitch-free this week, serving at times as a vital source of information for afflicted residents.
But instead of interviewing only corporate CEO's and clean tech innovators, it's time for Friedman to come down to the dusty soil and interview coal miners, afflicted residents and farmers and children in the coalfields, and the millions of people who are paying the price for many of these so-called "clean energy" alternatives.
With any sense of daily routine shattered, many afflicted residents came to believe that the old rules no longer applied.
All of the above may afflict residents in endemic areas and occasionally appear far from the source of origin in travellers or migrants, and usually cause diagnostic confusion.
But resignation and bitter apathy afflicted many residents, who disliked the project but felt that it was unstoppable.
The second home is not affiliated with the first, the Kinsmen Place Lodge, where the ailment has afflicted 143 residents and workers since July 1.
Perhaps the exposure of this situation in the article will encourage Southampton Town officials to find more realistic, responsible and productive solutions to the serious problems afflicting many residents of Hampton Bays who would like to be able to live in their homes and take pride in their community.
The plaintiffs argued that pollutants from dozens of years of nuclear and rocket engine testing at the hilltop lab were responsible for a wide range of cancers, auto-immune disorders and tumors afflicting nearby residents.
