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houseless
adjective as in without permanent shelter
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"Jordan Neely was murdered," Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat from New York, wrote on X after his death, adding, "he was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services".
“A lot of people who talk about justice for him … would’ve walked right past him on the street when he was struggling, just as they’re doing to a lot of our houseless community members now.”
The message to the campus community “framed our houseless students as a group of people who are feared, clearly intimidating them to get them off campus,” the letter said.
The campus-wide email was “an attempt to shame, humiliate, and isolate the houseless community on campus,” the petition said.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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