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The situation “was both a wake-up call and a cautionary tale to housers everywhere,” said Rochelle Mills, chief executive of Innovative Housing Opportunities, a nonprofit developer in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2023

Compare that chart to data released this week by the Eviction Lab, a research group run out of Princeton University by Matthew Desmond, the sociologist whose Pulitzer-winning book Evicted had housers talking in 2016.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2018

“I knew these guys were rough housers, and I was like, ‘Look man, I’m not going anywhere, but if you want, we can wrestle.’

From Time • Jan. 21, 2015

To be safe, check with your local police, who now have access to the FBI criminal database for free background checks on evacuees and housers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, Gay's, who never by any chance survived the first two rounds of the cricket and football housers, invariably won the shooting shield.

From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)