rough sleepers
Sleeping outside unsheltered
Rough sleepers are homeless people who sleep outdoors—on streets, in parks, under bridges, in doorways.
The term is primarily British and often appears in official contexts: The council counted 200 rough sleepers in the city center.
Rough sleeping emphasizes the harshness of sleeping without shelter, exposed to weather and danger.
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- vagrantHomeless itinerant person
- unshelteredHaving no overhead protection
- cardboard boxRigid paper container
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
vulnerable · support worker · destitution · beggar · skid row · penniless · displaced persons · encampments · tramps · social exclusion · mental health care · poverty line · emergency shelters · affordable housing · food insecurity · soup kitchen · transitional housing · streetwise
- homelessnesshomeless, homeless shelters, unhoused, homeless veterans, houseless
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
rough sleepershomeowners
Property-possessing residents
householders · mortgage holders · tenants · renters · residents
rough, sleeper, rougher, roughest, roughly, roughness, roughen, roughened, roughening