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houseless

[hous-lis] / ˈhaʊs lɪs /
ADJECTIVE
without permanent shelter
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The campus-wide email was “an attempt to shame, humiliate, and isolate the houseless community on campus,” the petition said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2023

America’s homeless population ranges between 500,000 and 600,000 depending on who’s counting, with roughly two-thirds of houseless people sleeping in shelters.

From Salon Nov. 7, 2023

“We have an increase in houseless folks around Burlington,” Ms. Hightower said.

From New York Times Nov. 12, 2022

"My parents might be homeless, but they aren't houseless," Phoebe tweeted, along with a video of her and her mother.

From BBC Sep. 30, 2022

All those miles and days had been across a houseless, speechless desolation: rock, ice, sky, and silence: nothing else, for eighty-one days, except each other.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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