Slab City, also called The Slabs, is a largely snowbird community in the Sonoran Desert located in Imperial County, California, 100 miles northeast of San Diego and 169 miles southeast of Los Angeles within the California Badlands, and used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America
I am pretty sure it is "became". Hope that helped :)
the type or category of a piece of literature is called it's "genre "
