houseless

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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

"They've done nothing at all in terms of the welfare of students. There are so many students who are sofa-surfing or are houseless and have nowhere to go."

From BBC • Sep. 21, 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

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