houseless

Example Sentences

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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

"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