Etymology
Origin of underhoused
Example Sentences
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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.
From Seattle Times
“We are woefully underhoused,” said Stephanie Poynor, a Tampa property manager and wife of a retired serviceman.
From Seattle Times
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.
From The New Yorker
Regarded by industry analysts as chronically underhoused, San Francisco added 31,000 jobs in 2012 in a city of about 800,000.
Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota�its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children.
From Time Magazine Archive
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