homeless

unhoused

Lacking stable housing

• rooflessHaving no overhead covering
• shelterlessHaving no protection overhead
• sleeping roughLiving without housing

sidewalk · doorway · underpass · alleyway · encampment · tent city · cardboard · sleeping bag · exposed · outdoors

vagrant

Homeless itinerant person

• transientTemporary, soon departing
• drifterAimless, rootless traveler
• itinerantMoving for work

wanderer · vagabond · hobo · tramp · nomad · roamer · wayfarer · rootless · footloose · migrant

destitute

Utterly without means

• indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
• impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
• penuryExtreme lack of money

privation · hardship · deprivation · needy · pauper · want · squalor · hunger · malnutrition · down-and-out

panhandler

One who begs publicly

• beggarOne who asks for charity
• mendicantOne who begs
• buskingPublic performance for donations

spare change · cup · cardboard sign · street corner · handouts · alms · charity · donations · soup kitchen · food bank

evicted

Removed from property legally

• uprootedRemoved from foundation
• dispossessedDeprived of home or land
• refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad

deportee · stateless · expelled · exiled · banished · relocated · foreclosed · stranded · abandoned · cast out

outcast

Shunned, rejected person

• marginalizedPushed to society's edges
• invisibleCannot be seen
• stigmatizedMarked with social shame

forgotten · neglected · vulnerable · alienated · pariah · disenfranchised · overlooked · excluded · shunned · isolated

shelter

Protected place or structure

• missionPurpose-driven task
• halfway houseTransitional residence for recovery
• transitional housingTemporary supported accommodation

social worker · case manager · Section 8 · voucher · supportive housing · rehab · detox · mental health · warming center · drop-in center

• hard timeshardship, struggle, struggling, unemployment, tough times
• money troublesdebt relief, bad debt, bankruptcy filing, paycheck to paycheck, struggling
• urban issuestraffic, congestion, crime, parking, public transit
• wealth statuspoor, rich, wealthy, affluent, middle-class
• outsidersoutcast, outsider, outcasts, pariah, misfit
• Disadvantageddisadvantaged, underprivileged, vulnerable, marginalized, needy