How to Use unhoused in a Sentence

unhoused

adjective
  • The killing was one of dozens this year in L.A. in which the victims were unhoused.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • At the last count, there were 8,000 people unhoused in the city.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bass has called for the center to be leased to care for unhoused people.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 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
  • Most of the unhoused people here aren’t even from Seattle.
    oregonlive, 1 Nov. 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
  • In 2018, half of all unhoused people in L.A. County were homeless for the first time in their lives.
    Francesca Mari, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Over the past 20 years, Ellis, who was unhoused, became a beloved vendor at the lake.
    Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2022
  • 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
  • In the shootings of the unhoused men, the first victim -- a 37-year-old man, was killed at about 3 a.m. on Sunday, police said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Salt Lake City has long taken the largest chunk of offering resources to the unhoused.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The group enlisted the help of the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services to work with the unhoused living in the area.
    Frank Gluck, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Police did not say whether the unhoused people had anything to do with the attacks.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • But that can be hard for people who just lost everything, the poor or unhoused.
    Jackie Snow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • One bright spot was a decline in the number of unhoused veterans.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons.
    Piper French, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Two decades later, its streets are still home to thousands of unhoused people.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 2 July 2024
  • 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
  • Earlier in the week, around 10% of the Salt Lake Valley’s beds for unhoused people were available.
    Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Bonin has been praised by some advocates for his empathic view of the unhoused.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
  • He was drawn to the fringes and the forgotten, the lives of drifters, circus performers, Roma families, and the city’s unhoused.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Of the unhoused people in the county during the count, 1,273 were unsheltered, with the remainder in some form of shelter.
    Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • On a recent afternoon, there were only a few unhoused people in the park.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • The act, which needs the approval of the City Council, would give her the power to speed up the process of adding more temporary housing for unhoused Angelenos.
    Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Kilpatrick didn’t have details on where the unhoused people were evacuated from.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025

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