How to Use unhoused in a Sentence

unhoused

adjective
  • Too many unhoused people pass through with nowhere else to go.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
  • Many of our unhoused neighbors fell on hard times through no fault of their own.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Bass has called for the center to be leased to care for unhoused people.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • But that can be hard for people who just lost everything, the poor or unhoused.
    — Jackie Snow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Two decades later, its streets are still home to thousands of unhoused people.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 2 July 2024
  • At the last count, there were 8,000 people unhoused in the city.
    — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The plight of the unhoused — and those who live, work and make art among them — is everyone’s business.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Police did not say whether the unhoused people had anything to do with the attacks.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Bonin has been praised by some advocates for his empathic view of the unhoused.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • One bright spot was a decline in the number of unhoused veterans.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Dozens of unhoused people were forced to move when camps in the Rio Grande area were cleared last week.
    — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Tonight, his job was to survey camps as part of an annual point-in-time count of unhoused people.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons.
    — Piper French, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Now, tents of unhoused people line many sidewalks in Portland.
    — Jordan Gale Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • The problem is worse for the unhoused, who have little choice but to spend all of their time on these dangerous streets.
    — Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 5 Apr. 2022
  • On a recent afternoon, there were only a few unhoused people in the park.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • Send it to the people who are putting together protests, who are doing food drives for unhoused people.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 27 June 2025
  • An unhoused street medic living in an encampment The police are down the street.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Eighteen wheelers rumbled past at all hours, and masses of unhoused people camped down the street.
    — Charles Bock, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Tempers are hot, both the housed and the unhoused are tired, if not fed up, and many are wondering who, if anyone, is in charge.
    — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • Vales remembers when Lee came to homeless park in Akron to help clean and serve food to the unhoused.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 23 July 2021
  • The Times spoke with dozens of unhoused people, some of whom said the law left them uncertain about the future.
    — Yacob Reyes, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Over the past 20 years, Ellis, who was unhoused, became a beloved vendor at the lake.
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2022
  • But low-income and unhoused people, as well as animals and plants in the wild, are unable to escape.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 Sep. 2024
  • And then, like that, Bidwell was on the street, one of the legions of unhoused in San Diego.
    — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This program places those who are unhoused in stable units and wraps social services around them to break the cycle of poverty.
    — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Salt Lake City has long taken the largest chunk of offering resources to the unhoused.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The university plans to construct housing and dorms over the plot of land that has long been the home of unhoused people and a site for free meals.
    — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The events are the latest in a long-running dispute about where the unhoused residents can camp out in Sausalito.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Even as officials say homelessness in the District has declined, the number who died while unhoused had been on the rise.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021

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