The word 'shacks' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a small, shabby or temporary dwelling. For example, "Many of the villagers live in simple wooden shacks near the river."
Some shacks are double-storied, with a ladder leading upwards.
It will also be an opportunity for curious locals to look around the site, where the occupiers have erected wooden shacks across the field used as a kitchen, guest rooms for visitors, a common room and even a library.
Herrington bristled to see orange-jumpsuited detainees carried to wooden shacks by guards and shackled to the floor – techniques that reinforced the detainees' anger at their confinement, undercutting the rapports Herrington advised would be critical for getting them to talk.
Further on, the pavements are packed with shacks built with plywood or sometimes bricks, divided into warrens by pieces of cloth and flimsy partitions.
They call them "flying toilets" – the bags of human poo that are thrown out of the windows of the thousands of small shacks that make up Nairobi's slums.
Even for those familiar with São Paulo's favelas, the first sight of the flimsy, dilapidated shacks in the Favela do Moinho comes as a shock.
Think of it as a Portuguese Whitstable, only with vast sandy beaches instead of small pebbly ones, sun-bleached seafood shacks instead of wind-battered ice cream vans, pink flamingos instead of seagulls and Brazilian models instead of… OK, so it's nothing like Whitstable.
Mohamed Kamara, a resident of Mabella slum in the Sierra Leonean capital whose brother recently died of cholera, decried the poor sanitation in his neighbourhood of congested tin shacks, as well as the unhygienic habits of people living there.
"I have had to use any spare money I have on a power generator," says a tailor, Abdou Daouda, sewing a bright blue skirt in one of many wooden shacks on a sandy street in the capital.
At one cluster of shacks, members of three families admitted they were farming illegally.Iem Somean, a 27-year-old mother of seven, is one of them.
IN THE basement of St Gregory's church in Crown Heights, a Brooklyn neighbourhood where kosher pizzerias compete with jerk-chicken shacks for business, the officers of the 77th precinct are giving away colouring books for children.
