houseless

adj

1. Lacking a house, or, by extension, a residence or place of refuge in general; thus, having no home.

   “Some advocates for unhoused people have insisted that they be called houseless rather than homeless, but even within the community of advocates there is not universal agreement on this terminological prescription.”

2. Lacking a permanent place of residence but not a ‘home’ in the broader sense, for example in the form of a community.

   “He said that he was houseless but not homeless because he went to school in that community, was registered to vote there, and had been living in the teepee for seventeen years. He said that teepee was his home.”

   “No, I'm not… homeless. I'm just…houseless. Not the same thing, right?”

   “What I’m realizing is that a lot of our fishermens that are here that are, you know, houseless or whatever it is, they don’t realize that they are living in the footsteps of their kupuna. Because the Western society had made them look like: you’re houseless, you're this, you’re that, but actually they’re living the culture more than the next person.[…]Our houseless people—if the end of the world comes, I’m going to go with our houseless people.”

3. Containing no house or place of refuge; wild or inhospitable.

   “And methought the dream smote up the roof above my bed, and the roof yawned to the naked air of the midnight, that laboured with fiery signs, and a bearded star travelling in the houseless dark.”