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houseless

[hous-lis] / ˈhaʊs lɪs /
ADJECTIVE
without permanent shelter
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“We have an increase in houseless folks around Burlington,” Ms. Hightower said.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2022

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

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