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houseless

[hous-lis] / ˈhaʊs lɪs /
ADJECTIVE
without permanent shelter
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Many years before the Angels first baseman was born, Walsh’s grandmother saw a houseless person on her porch and instead of telling them to leave, she fed them.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2022

"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

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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