How To Use Homeless In A Sentence

A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
Hundreds of homeless people could freeze to death this winter.
It was written, edited, illustrated and compiled by homeless and formerly homeless people in San Francisco.
She emotionally recalls what it was like as a teenager running into her homeless dad on the streets and pretending she didn't know him.
He is homeless and in desperate need of help.

Contact Shelter who advise anyone worried about being made homeless ( shelter. The Sun
What is the cure for the plight of the homeless?
I think of the work that goes on in our homeless shelters, hospitals and hospices. The Sun
Why not leave churches open at night so homeless people have somewhere to shelter from the cold and rain? The Sun
Apparently they're up to here in woolies, but nobody ever remembers that homeless men need underpants too.
She's been spotted at a homeless shelter and dragged kicking and screaming back to Walford. The Sun
The numbers of those on the waiting lists for housing has grown rapidly, as have the numbers of homeless in Britain.
The homeless families now reside in an abandoned neighborhood advisory council building located behind the former police station.
Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates round the problem, it doesn't solve it.
If the mortgage rate has to go up to bring the price of houses down, it will create more homelessness because of repossessions.
Try to find some people who knew him before he became homeless. ROUGH JUSTICE
Certainly the idea is not that all accused should be homeless and jobless while awaiting trial isit? The Volokh Conspiracy » What Should Landlords Do If a Tenant Is Accused of a Violent Crime?
In Assam four weeks of rain, ahead of the monsoon season, have devastated huge areas, making 5m people homeless.
Violence victims face homelessness Social workers need more training in housing legislation to protect victims of domestic violence being made homeless.
The governor has promised to stake the city's homeless to what they need for a fresh start.
The four persons who were beaten and burned not only were homeless, but were reported by police to be drug addicts.
Emergency workers arrived at the scene to be confronted by the enormous size of the landslide and hundreds of homeless families. Times, Sunday Times
But Saturn came to the country, a homeless exile fleeing from his son Jupiter.
But they were not used to wandering by themselves, in the manner of the later homeless children.
Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates round the problem, it doesn't solve it.
She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in recognition of her work for the homeless.
For me to think I'm any better than a homeless person on the street is ridiculous.
Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen
Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
It was a bit of a comedown in that we had to pack up everything and then spend 48 hours homeless - living in other people's spare rooms, our car packed to the gunnels with all our worldly possessions.
they raise money to provide homes for the homeless
Feeling guilty for the homeless is one thing, finding cheap secure accommodation for them is quite another .
Why not leave churches open at night so homeless people have somewhere to shelter from the cold and rain? The Sun
Some twenty two thousand have been made homeless, and they still face constant danger.
For most homeless people alcohol is a far bigger problem than hard drugs. The Sun
In many of the worlds' bigger airports, the homeless and the dispossessed and the plain crooked are increasingly congregating, realising the scope they provide for buckshee food, drink, beds and bathroom facilities.
The homeless persons sought judicial review of that resolution by the local authority.
A video clip from a Fuji TV news report narrates the story of Sidival Furuzawa Pereira, a homeless man in Hamamatsu, Japan. Global Voices in English » Global Recession: The world is talking. Are we listening?
I was appalled to read the mayor's vitriolic attack on the homeless.
Much of the human population there lacks the essentials, so of course homeless dogs and cats are allotted next to nothing.
On the homeless front, 71 percent of the cities surveyed reported increases in requests for emergency shelter.
The council have a very strict rule that homeless people are only allowed one offer of a council house.
For years I had lived next door to a hostel for homeless people in London. The Sun
During this time Kissinger needlessly prolonged U.S. war-making in which 20,853 Americans were killed and an officially U. S.-estimated 7,860,013 Indochinese were murdered, maimed or made homeless. Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History
The owners have blogged their personal journey, freely discussing how they used to be homeless and what led them to want to start a bakery.
How much social housing could this build to give homeless people some dignity? The Sun
In college, Jeannette is singled out by a professor for not understanding the plight of homeless people; instead of defending herself, she keeps quiet. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls: Questions
Those most vulnerable, the homeless, the underprivileged, and the downtrodden, will have to sweat in the heat as they wait for the postperson to bring them their inadequate social assistance. The Last Snowflake
Among residents who arrived at the showground were holidaymakers and homeless people with nowhere left to go. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
He actually had a job pumping gas (with a pay rate that didn't nearly cover the cost of the average bachelor apartment) so he was staying at the homeless shelter.
Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady. Brit Wit
The erection of a costly monument in the capital while young people are homeless and the elderly are without proper medical care is an abuse of public money, the party stated.
A homeless guy who had to survive winter in the streets crushed up paper and stuffed his clothes with them for insulation.
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The shock of finding herself homeless and possessionless was not nearly as great as the strangeness of realizing that someone wanted her dead. Sonnet of the Sphinx
Today senior governments limit their social housing to funding shelters for homeless people.
The local MP has taken up the case of the family of six who have been left homeless.
The policy, designed to leave families homeless, impoverished and traumatized, is illegal because international law forbids the demolition of houses by an occupying power.
It's illogical to pay for homeless families to stay in hostels instead of building new houses.
If he is evicted and made homeless he is bound to commit suicide, for which the council will be squarely responsible.
This group of people living in subterranean shanties are proof that, as one of them says in the film, ‘homeless doesn't mean helpless.’
Out of sympathy for the homeless children he gave them shelter for the night.
A homeless man accused of trying to steal a hat at a convenience store battled three deputies in a brawl, grabbed at a deputy's handgun and had to be shocked with a stun gun twice before he was arrested, according to a Marion sheriff's report.
Four or five times every week, Whitfield says, the Memorial Ladies and the guardsmen are the only witnesses at funerals of veterans who were homeless or outlived immediate relatives. Chron.com Chronicle
Critics have dismissed his visit to a shelter for the homeless as an obvious piece of electioneering.
She said homelessness had mushroomed during the economic boom, with young people making up larger numbers of those sleeping rough.
Not because of who he was but because it looked like four homeless people had walked in - not a movie star. The Sun
For example, one might provide for group action, whereby associations of, say, homeless people, would be able to challenge government housing policies on grounds of unconstitutionality.
People are homeless and hungry, the landscape often ungenerous, but in many of these poems, kindness is the miracle. Carol Muske-Dukes: Scattershot Poetry Reviews -- Three Books
The team will sell hot dogs at tailgate parties to raise money for ConAgra's Feeding Children Better initiative for the homeless and underprivileged kids.
The authorities must pay urgent attention to the growing statistics of homeless families.
How much social housing could this build to give homeless people some dignity? The Sun
After the hurricane the homeless numbered over 200 000.
It is a building where the homeless, bedless, penniless man, if he be lucky, may CASUALLY rest his weary bones, and then work like a navvy next day to pay for it. A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
Re-Connect, a council-run service, assists youngsters in danger of becoming homeless as well as those in temporary accommodation hoping to be reconciled with their families.
Some of these street people tell me they have been homeless for years.
At a shelter for homeless and at-risk youth in southeast Washington, President-elect Barack Obama rolled up his sleeves, grabbed a paint brush and went to work on Monday. On Day of Service, Obama Visits Homeless Shelter - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
They have managed to liberate many from this ‘trap’ only to ensnare them in the homelessness maze.
Teardrop was known as a friend of the homeless and was easily recognised because of the tattoos all over his body, including tribal markings on his face.
The moment of transition is one of the great mysteries of homelessness. STUART: A Life Backwards
Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
Mayor Art Agnos invited the homeless to bivouac in Civic Center for more than a year while he chewed on the problem.
There are better ways to highlight the plight of the homeless.
Sadly, a homeless man died in the process. The Sun
Government claims that there is no poverty are belied by the number of homeless people on the streets.
In typical bureaucratese, the interim director, Deborah Carroll ,explained, During hypothermia season, any participant who meets the definition of homeless should get shelter. Art Levine: GOP-Style Democrats Slash DC Budget: Homeless Moms Already Given Bus Tokens, Not Shelter
We're collecting for the homeless.
The increasing visibility of the nation's poor and homeless has forced the government into taking action.
The homeless tramp sleeps peacefully on the bench.
One reason is "survivor bias"—having survived not only the bombings but homelessness, hunger and a typhoon in the immediate aftermath, the subjects may be a hardier lot than the Japanese population at large. Coal Is More Dangerous Than Nuclear
Unless we work for justice through social change, the need at food banks, homeless shelters, and low-income medical clinics will only increase.
If the authority is to discharge its legal duty to house the homeless, it needs government support.
to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real
They usually fed along the alley ways, since they were highways for the city's riffraff and homeless - usually easy prey.
The church provides blankets and clothing for homeless children.
Asda has been showing its caring side by giving away gifts to homeless people in Trowbridge this week.
So for someone who is broke, with low morale, can you see how easy it is to become homeless?
The government also advised that it expects a shortfall in tax revenues, because of the economic slump, and that it was stepping up its programme of building shelters for the unemployed and homeless.
There is no local authority provision for young people who are homeless - that should be written into a charter.
When they were in Atlanta, Georgia, US, my cousin reported a lot of awful stuff about what was being done to "sanitize" the city of homeless folks and sex workers. Political crosstitch pieces! (update post 3!)
We're matching homeless people with peopleless homes," - said Max Rameau. Strike updates for US homeless, Oakland riots, France, Israel, Gaza
The authorities have urged people not to underestimate the risk and a boatel for the homeless on the Vltava river said it still had around 50 vacancies a night. Latest articles - Radio Prague
They enjoyed researching everything from homeless shelters to environmental advocacy groups.
He has been sleeping rough in the streets to highlight the plight of the homeless.
I was homeless and had to beg for money.
The homeless sleep in doorways and stations - we step over their bodies like so much human flotsam.
The thing is people do morally incorrect stuff all the time, heck we drive cars dumping pollution in the air irregardless of our neighbours, we talk behind other people's backs, we ignore homeless beggers, we cross the street disrupting traffic, heck even eating a fishburger is probably hurting someone else somewhere. Rant: Postmodernism and the Tabula Rasa
THE man behind the war logs leak is a homeless rebel devoted to spilling highly sensitive, confidential documents for the world to see. The Sun
There are those, you know, who, by circumstance, end up homeless.
Now he is painting from his bottom bunk at an Athens shelter for the homeless after his business collapsed because of the economic crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Lunchtime brings out young-ish men in khakis and button-down shirts who avoid the homeless sleeping on benches.
This year's brainteaser, which is available from Caversham toy and book shop Wordplay in Prospect Street, will aim to raise cash for CIRDIC, which offers food, warmth and a place to freshen up for homeless people in the town. Getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
They send relief to those who made homeless by floods.
It's about time bedbound homeless people were taken down a peg or two. Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition'
What motivated my desire to write about the homeless from the position of that doorway was a woman named Gerri Willinger.
Homeless children scrounge for spare change, and newspapers carry ads from people offering their kidneys for cash.
After the hurricane the homeless numbered over 200 000.
At a moment when my students take on ever more debt because of steep tuition hikes which reflect years of education cuts, when our consumption of oil continues to grow because our public transportation is so terrible, when our assistance to poor and homeless people pales in comparison to what other modern societies provide, the Pentagon is forced to shave five percent off its pornographically bloated budget. Aaron Belkin: Planned Pentagon Cuts Are Trivial
He has offered to volunteer for local charities but as soon as he gives his address as a homeless hostel'they don't want anything to do with you. Times, Sunday Times
The homeless child often dreamt about home.
The result of this animalisation was the disempowering of homeless people through their representation as incoherent babbling drunks, the wild, drug crazed miscreants and the ‘feral’ runaways.
But on my drive back uptown I saw that on every block there seemed to be a homeless person.
Claudia was sweet, volunteering at homeless shelters during big holidays, serving food to the poor.
Also warmer environments will attract those with not much to lose, the homeless are more numerable in warmer environs. "Did Socialized Medicine Kill Natasha Richardson?"
Many homeless people are too proud to ask for charity.
Many have been left homeless and the region was declared a disaster zone.
They'd soon be penniless and homeless if she couldn't find suitable work.
THE man behind the war logs leak is a homeless rebel devoted to spilling highly sensitive, confidential documents for the world to see. The Sun
She turns away up to 6 homeless people a day.
Adolescents, men, the homeless, and people with sexually transmitted diseases may not feel comfortable in a health centre.
One has to consider that an entire area has been hit and thousands of people are homeless.
Homelessness, overseas aid, prison overcrowding, electoral reform and the maintenance of peace are all on the agenda.
Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
He was a homeless man, heavily bearded and middle-aged. Times, Sunday Times
He has already won hearts and minds for his work with the homeless, ticket giveaways and replacing replica shirts when he changed his number. Times, Sunday Times
Even though the word "homeless" suggests the absence of a home is the sole defining characteristic, homelessness is far more complex than the name suggests. David Henderson: There Is More to Ending Homelessness Than Simply Building Affordable Housing
We must avoid the downward spiral in which unemployment leads to homelessness and then to crime.
Hundreds of people were rendered homeless by the earthquake.
Homeless people lose mobiles or have them stolen in hostels. Times, Sunday Times
The look became dottier and dottier, until it morphed into a kind of homeless masquerade, one that was accented by subtle luxuries like a cashmere muffler, a Balenciaga lariat bag and of course her signature carryout latte from Starbucks. "Ashcan chic ... a kind of homeless masquerade."
This was as real an investigation into homelessness as Dynasty was a searing critique of rampant capitalism. Times, Sunday Times
A York Scout group left homeless when an arson attack destroyed their base have found new headquarters in East Yorkshire.
Melrose and Von Behrens honours crowded each other -- here was the thin old silver "shepherdess" cup awarded that Johanna von Behrens who had won a prize with her sheep, while Washington was yet a boy; and here the quaint tortoise-shell snuff-box that a great prince, homeless and unknown, had given the American family that took him in; and the silver buttons from Lafayette's waistcoat that the great Frenchman had presented Colonel Horace Murison of the "Continentals. The Beloved Woman
Terrorist attacks that destroy thousands of lives and forest fires, which completely annihilate an area and leave many persons homeless and displaced, aren't uncommon nowadays.
Until an accurate means of counting both sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons is implemented nationwide, we won't have any way of assessing who is chronically homeless and if and how they are being helped.
The homeless are often stereotyped as being tramps or junkies who litter shop doorways.
Give to a homeless charity instead. The Sun
Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
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Councils and housing associations will be allowed to lease or buy empty homes in order to provide accommodation for homeless people.
It was a characteristically confused encounter but one that made it clear to the author that the events of 1967 had made him permanently homeless.
These services also help people to live independently on leaving residential care, prison, hospital or from being homeless.
Just a few years ago, Tanya was homeless and begging for money in front of the supermarket.
Any homeless person could tell you that. Times, Sunday Times
the woeful plight of homeless people
A royal edict of 1749 had ordered a round-up of all the homeless in Paris, children included, even those who were taking shelter in churches.
The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused.
The homeless refugees were rehoused by the local government.
Thousands were left homeless as towns were flattened in the disaster. The Sun
The phenomenon of anomie - namelessness, rootlessness, homelessness - that so delights the sociologists. A RODENT OF DOUBT
The marathon public comment session went for over two hours, as homeless advocates and downtown business leaders brought up familiar points — that the proposal would make downtown considerably safer for pedestrians, and that the proposal is an infringement on civil liberties. More than 100 Folks Crowd City Hall for Hearing on Burgess’ Panhandling Ordinance « PubliCola
He observed a homeless teenager panhandling passers-by for spare change a dozen feet away.
The homeless sleep in doorways and stations - we step over their bodies like so much human flotsam.
Raising money for the homeless has been incredibly difficult.
The programme will take a detailed and provocative look at the problem of homelessness.
The mental health charity Turning Point and homeless charities were astonished by her ease with people shunned by society.
How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar?
Any profits help rehouse the city's homeless, so you might expect it would be run like a soup kitchen with trestle tables and urns of stewed tea.
A homeless shelter that allows residents to freely drink on the premises has opened in Dublin, the first in Ireland.
They opened a shelter to provide temporary housing for the city's homeless.
One common cause of homelessness is separation or divorce.
At about the same time, a rumour also started that he was a down-andout, living in a homeless hostel. The Daily Record - Home
He has offered to volunteer for local charities but as soon as he gives his address as a homeless hostel'they don't want anything to do with you. Times, Sunday Times
His heart ached for the starving homeless.
Homeless children sniff glue to dull their hunger pains.
Now he is painting from his bottom bunk at an Athens shelter for the homeless after his business collapsed because of the economic crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Other reports confirmed that flooding had left an estimated 3,000 people homeless.
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A homeless teacher has been jailed after he stole cash from a kind-hearted charity boss who lent him money and gave him a job.
About a quarter of our clients are homeless street kids, but the rest live and work in Hollywood.
Several months later, Mary Katherine remembered that Mitchell was among the homeless people the Smarts sometimes hired to do odd jobs and he was identified as the kidnapper. The Guardian World News
I have a feeling I looked like a homeless hobo that sleeps under anything she can find.
Our subject for discussion is homelessness.
I ended up having to find space in a homeless shelter. The Sun
They are polyvalent images: the sea suggesting a space to be explored, the possibility of quest and discovery, but also a place of danger, drifting, homelessness and exile.
Just like comedians, politicians need running gags, like designer tent encampments for the homeless in the parks.
Not long ago the community-service committee conducted a food drive for Boston's homeless shelters.
While Sean Parker is portrayed as a "high-flying but functionally homeless cocaine fiend who plies Zuckerberg with girls and venture capitalists," Zuckerberg receives the brunt of the film's black-comedic depiction and, according to Newsweek, comes off as a "borderline autistic, entirely ruthless conniver. The Social Network Depicts Facebook CEO As 'Sex Maniac'
The stigma associated with homelessness is so ill-informed.
It is aimed at giving the homeless a roof over their heads during the festive season, as well as hot food and a place to sleep.
The group is trying to raise public awareness about homelessness.
That's actually pretty accurate in terms of linking homelessness, unaffordable housing, and poverty!
He found himself homeless after his marriage broke up.
There are thought to be around 10,000 young homeless Scots in London at any given time.
Last month, children accounted for 1, 412 of the 5, 299 people living in homeless shelters in the city.
Perhaps they’d be better off starting a little closer to home - perhaps doubling funding for homeless or IVDU support, or perhaps community programs out @ Punchbowl. Cheeseburger Gothic » Remember how the city council cookie crisis led to General Jackson’s little coup in WW?
What about all the local people who are homeless? The Sun
The vast majority of homeless people are there because they won't conform to the ways of the world.
An accomplished "victim blamer" will conclude that those homeless children are suffering appropriately for the "sins of their fathers. Mike Papantonio: GOP: Poor People Get What They Deserve
Underneath that homeless-person exterior is an articulate, widely read man.

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