underhoused

[uhn-der-houzd]

adjective

1. (of persons) having inadequate or poor housing. house.

2. (of a community or area) not having enough dwellings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of underhoused¹

under- + house + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The San Francisco Chronicle took home the top prize for Public Service Journalism for Joaquin Palomino and Trisha Thadani’s reporting on the disastrous state of the shelter system for underhoused Californians.

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“We are woefully underhoused,” said Stephanie Poynor, a Tampa property manager and wife of a retired serviceman.

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Latinos remain disproportionally unemployed, underhoused and overburdened, with little relief in sight.

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Russell referred to Yellowhammer’s work with “underhoused” people, a near-synonym for “homeless” that Njoku and Tinsley later confessed they had never heard before.

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Regarded by industry analysts as chronically underhoused, San Francisco added 31,000 jobs in 2012 in a city of about 800,000.

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