The word "dweller" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person or animal living in a particular place – typically a human living in a home. For example: "The cave dweller was living an isolated existence."
Meeting "the voice and embodiment of the jazz age, its product and its beneficiary, a popular novelist, a movie scenarist, a dweller in the gilded palaces", the reporter found instead, to his distinct hilarity, that Fitzgerald was "forecasting doom, death and damnation to his generation".
As a city dweller I am, of course, accustomed to towering constructions, to the frequent disturbances of the skyline, to symbols of fierce modernity placed next to buildings of historical significance, and nature's determined route around them both.
She married another pavement dweller from across the road.
You are exploiting the slum dweller".
In 1906 Thomas Edison declared that he had hit upon the "salvation of the slum dweller"—cheap concrete houses cast from single, reusable moulds.
The pieces about her verdant vegetable patch are enthusiastic enough to force the most die-hard high-rise dweller to get out his trowel.
"I am a proud slum-dweller," says Jockin Arputham, 67, sitting in his office on the ground floor of an eight-storey building in a redeveloped portion of the Dharavi slum.
He is a city-dweller, a Whitehall centralist, a natural meddler, an interventionist at home and abroad.
"A dark-skinned slum-dweller lighting a spliff on the street is a peddler and thrown in jail".
Mobile-telephone users (that is, almost every adult city-dweller) can subscribe to stockmarket alerts and trade shares simply by pressing buttons on their handsets.Another big change is the ready availability of mortgageable or pawnable assets with which to raise money to buy shares.
In 1927 a Rockefeller-funded study of contraception sought "some simple measure which will be available for the wife of the slum-dweller, the peasant, or the coolie, though dull of mind".
