. . "\"Shantytown\" and \"Hutment\" redirect here. For the created gold-mining town in New Zealand, see Shantytown, New Zealand.A shanty town or squatter area is a settlement of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes. Such settlements are usually found on the periphery of cities, in public parks, or near railroad tracks, rivers, lagoons or city trash dump sites."@en . .