family shelter
Kin's safe haven
A family shelter is a facility providing temporary housing for families experiencing homelessness, typically keeping parents and children together rather than separating them into single-sex accommodations.
These shelters offer beds, meals, and often support services like job training or childcare: The city opened a new family shelter to address the housing crisis.
Distinguished from general homeless shelters, which may house only individuals.
- homeOne's personal residence
- safe havenProtected place of shelter
- refugePlace of safety
- housingDwellings or protective covering
- emergency housingTemporary refuge during crisis
warmth · safety · children · child welfare · parents · roof · protection · domestic · domestic violence · hearth · household · crisis · homeless · social services · sanctuary · support · temporary · beds
- emergency shelterstemporary housing, emergency housing, emergency beds, emergency bed, warming center
- victim servicesvictim support, victim advocate, victim assistance, crisis intervention, safe house
- housingapartments, home, house, houses, homes
family sheltersleeping rough
Living without housing
encampment · tent city · houselessness · rooflessness · exposure
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