“having no permanent abode,” 1610s, from home (n.) + -less. Old English had hamleas, but the modern word probably is a new formation.

windy (adj.) Old English windig “windy, breezy;” see wind (n. 1) + -y (2). Meaning “affected by flatulence” is in late Old English.

In this page you can discover 46 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for homeless, like: unhoused, roofless, houseless, having no home, destitute, displaced, abandoned, stateless, unplaced, banished and unwelcome.

WAIF. a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; “street children beg or steal in order to survive”

Transient is also a noun meaning “a person who moves from place to place; a homeless person.” The word comes from Latin transire, “to pass over,” so you can think of it as describing things that are quickly passed over.

nonmigrant

(rare, not comparable) Having a place to live; not homeless. As much as a home can hold.

People become homeless for lots of different reasons. There are social causes of homelessness, such as a lack of affordable housing, poverty and unemployment; and life events which push people into homelessness. People are forced into homelessness when they leave prison, care or the army with no home to go to.

not having a home

Homeless means lacking fixed, regular and adequate housing. You may be homeless if you are living in shelters, parks, motels, hotels, public spaces, camping grounds, cars, abandoned buildings, or temporarily living with other people because you have nowhere else to go.

Without a permanent home, you are considered to be experiencing homelessness which includes couchsurfing, staying in a hotel or shelter, or sleeping in your car. For some organizations they consider those ‘doubling up’, or multiple families living in one space highly at-risk of becoming homeless.

Simply put, yes and no CPS can remove ones child or children just because the parents are homeless. No, because in most states child welfare laws prohibit CPS from removing children based soley on poverty. When removing children due being homeless CPS will simply call it “neglect”.

Many people who become homeless do not show up in official figures. This is known as hidden homelessness. This includes people who become homeless but find a temporary solution by staying with family members or friends, living in squats or other insecure accommodation.

According to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Social Work, homelessness is formally defined by the United States government as when a person “lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and if they sleep in a shelter designated for temporary living accommodations or in places not designated for human habitation …

In the United States there are no local estimates of “couch-homeless” also sometimes called precariously housed, doubled up, couch surfers. They are the homeless who stay with friends and family. For the US overall, the estimate is 1.65% of the population is couch-homeless.

According to the Collins Dictionary definition, a sofa surfer is indeed classed as homeless. They are an individual, or family who have no fixed address of their own. They do not rent or own a property.