hutment

a type of shantytown whose buildings are made with mud brick, mortar, or found materials.

Prior to the 1950's, a "hutment" could mean any sort of temporary barracks.

These hutment colonies consist of hovels made of a variety of hard and soft materials like pieces of wood, rags, tin sheets, mud, bricks and any such thing that comes in handy.

Pushpa Agnihotri, *Poverty amidst prosperity: survey of slums* (1994), p.44

by Abu Yahya April 10, 2010