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houseless

[hous-lis] / ˈhaʊs lɪs /
ADJECTIVE
without permanent shelter
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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.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2023

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

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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