unhoused

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈhaʊzd/
• Rhymes: -aʊzd

From un- +‎ house +‎ -ed.

unhoused (not comparable)

1. Driven from one's home.
2. (euphemistic) Homeless.
   • 2017, Robert Rosenberger, Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless‎^[1], U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

     This combination of law and design can sometimes be so effective that it renders the entire problem of homelessness—and also the unhoused people themselves—invisible to others.

   • 2022 July 18, Sam Levin, “As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     In a remote stretch of southern California desert, at least 200 unhoused people live outside, battling the extremes: blazing hot temperatures in the summer, snow in winter, rugged terrain inaccessible to many vehicles, a constant wind that blankets everything with silt, and no running water for miles.

   • 2024 March 12, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an 'unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], archived from the original on 22 March 2024:

     But on Feb. 24, [Sanai] Graden made a new video for her now 930,800 followers. Gone was the college student embracing the opportunity to help an unhoused man.

   • 2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:

     But there was that dissonance. On the way to work, I would pass people shooting up drugs in front of the subway stations, the unhoused peeing on sidewalks just blocks from my office.

3. Not located within a housing.

   an unhoused engine

• housed

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

unhoused

1. simple past and past participle of unhouse