safe housing
Protected living space
Safe housing is shelter that meets basic standards of security and habitability—protection from environmental hazards, structural dangers, and threats from others.
The term appears frequently in social services and policy contexts, where it often specifically means housing for people fleeing domestic violence, homelessness, or other dangerous situations: The program helps survivors find safe housing.
Safe housing may also refer more broadly to residences free from lead paint, mold, or crime.
- shelterProtected place or structure
- roofBuilding's protective top
- secureProtected from harm
- locked doorSecured portal requiring key
- stableSecure and unchanging
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- needsfood, water, shelter, sleep, air
- pet carepet daycare, dog daycare, doggy daycare, pet boarding, cat boarding
- social servicessocial workers, social work, social services, welfare office, case workers
- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, foster care, child services, foster home
- children's rightschildren's rights, child rights, child protection, child welfare, child advocacy
- youth rightschild protection, child custody, child labor laws, child support, juvenile justice
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Dwelling unfit for habitation
substandard housing · condemned building · death trap · firetrap · flophouse
safe housinghomelessness
Lacking permanent residence
rough sleeping · street living · sleeping rough · makeshift shelter · shanty
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