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houseless

[hous-lis] / ˈhaʊs lɪs /
ADJECTIVE
without permanent shelter
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She finished by pitching her chronically houseless client’s story: “This would be an opportunity to really help someone,” Shaw said.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2022

My parents might be homeless, but they aren't houseless.

From BBC Sep. 30, 2022

As officers wrestled him out of his tent and carried him bodily toward the police van, a man shouted: “Shame on you. Is that how you treat houseless people?”

From New York Times May 4, 2022

Swell couples could easily share a table with a houseless person, and the fabulous cafeterias were always integrated.

From Salon Feb. 17, 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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