A shantytown is a squatter settlement, sometimes illegal or unauthorized. People come looking for jobs when they come from poor countries but have nowhere to live so they have to make their own houses from materials, wood and concrete blocks in the shantytowns
The name for a shantytown where the homeless lived is called Hooverville.
Shantytown - 2009 was released on: USA: May 2009
Shantytown - 1943 was released on: USA: 20 April 1943
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Most of the time in a shantytown it is very small and very overpopulated. The main thing that is needed would be employment, electricity and in some cases clean running water.
The name for a Brazilian shantytown is "favela." Favelas are urban areas characterized by informal housing and often lack basic services and infrastructure. They typically arise in response to rapid urbanization and socioeconomic challenges faced by their residents.