homelessness
- noun
- /ˈhoʊmlɛs.nəs/
- Charities are providing resources to help those experiencing homelessness find shelter.
- experience homelessness
- end homelessness
- chronic homelessness
And he said to me that homelessness was his key issue.
- And he said to me that homelessness was his key issue.
- Well, first, I'd escape the blight of homelessness that's destroying the state.
- But first I wanted to talk about youth homelessness in the UK.
- These are precisely the conditions that lead to homelessness, to housing insecurity.
- If we don't put the brain in the center of the homelessness epidemic, we lose.
- You can consider homelessness a wicked problem, right?
- They live sad lives of borderline homelessness and drug, drug addicted desperation.
- Once again, we are here to end homelessness.
- Like a child that goes through a year of homelessness.
- You know, there's homelessness, there's addiction, there's, you know, mental health challenge.
Examples
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When she left the council, she became the mayor's policy adviser on homelessness.
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But first I wanted to talk about youth homelessness in the UK.
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And he said to me that homelessness was his key issue.
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How can folks who are going through homelessness be helped?
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Speaker, there is a homelessness crisis in this country.
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We're talking about mass homelessness and people dying.
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Homelessness is only increasing into the thousands...
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Children experiencing homelessness are more likely to miss school than other students from families.
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These are precisely the conditions that lead to homelessness, to housing insecurity.
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Professional school counselors need to be aware of the deleterious effects associated with homelessness on student health and educational success.
Academic text (2011)
Antonyms
How Rootless
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Morphology
Etymology
The word homelessness is built from home plus the ending -less, which means 'without', and -ness, which makes it 'a state'. So, homelessness means 'the state of being without a home', often living on the streets.