The word “shanty” is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a small, usually crudely constructed dwelling. For example, "The family lived in a makeshift shanty near the train tracks."
Today, providing affordable homes for the millions still living in shanty towns, tackling crime and diversifying the economy are some of the greatest challenges.
Mohammed Sheikh, a scrap metal welder, has worked here for decades and owns his own shanty room.
Predictably enough, huge, unplanned shanty towns have sprung up beyond the sleek, rational city centre.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIN MAY 2008 frenzy gripped many of South Africa's townships and shanty towns.
Had more people lived in robust housing instead of shanty towns by the shore, fewer lives would have been lost.
On July 14th a rocket seriously injured a ten-year-old girl in her shack in the shanty town of Lakiya.
Award: Natasha Loder Reprints Related items The strange allure of the slumsMay 3rd 2007For their own protection and to avoid the sort of anti-migrant pogroms that swept through South Africa's cities last year many urban refugees are trying to blend anonymously into the shanty-towns where they find shelter of sorts.
Paramilitary gendarmes then burnt down shanty-towns full of migrant workers from Burkina and Mali, who make up much of Côte d'Ivoire's labour force.By September 25th, forces loyal to Mr Gbagbo had regained control of Abidjan, the commercial capital, and had begun an attack on the second city, Bouaké, where rebels were hunkered down.
In a small way, the project has already shown that even in a shanty-town such as this it is feasible to treat patients with anti-retrovirals, and cheaply: the drugs cost $1.55 per patient per day, and the price would fall if they were locally made.All over South Africa, individuals and organisations are doing their bit in the struggle against AIDS.
Mr Sadr's followers, by contrast, are shanty-town Shias who have never enjoyed any kind of power.
This army of street boys, on a salary of a dollar a day, direct the traffic at key intersections and pile up the rubbish, giving the shanty-town some of the fastest-flowing and cleanest streets in all of Baghdad.His acolyte, Ali al-Rawawi, age 23, is the "mayor" of Gayera, a district of 200,000 people, and responsible for a workers' committee that is repairing six telephone exchanges.
