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houseless

[haus-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," Phoebe tweeted, along with a video of her and her mother.

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

But many of my neighbors are still houseless, sleeping in tents, cars and hotels hundreds of miles away.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2021

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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