street living
Life without shelter
Street living is the state of being homeless and residing outdoors or in public spaces rather than in permanent shelter.
The term is somewhat euphemistic, framing homelessness as a lifestyle rather than a condition of deprivation: The city's street living population has grown since the shelter closed.
It appears in policy discussions and social services contexts.
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- vagrantHomeless itinerant person
- sleeping roughLiving without housing
- pavementHard road covering
- shelterProtected place or structure
cardboard · panhandling · spare change · rough · sleeping · sidewalk · survival · hungry · cold · wandering · begging · transient · squatting · alley · park bench · doorway · blanket · invisible
- survival tacticspanhandling, dumpster diving, scavenging, squatting, rough sleeping
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
street livingaffluent lifestyle
Way of wealthy people
luxury living · prosperity · high living · financial security · creature comforts
street, living, streets, lively, livelihood, outlive, relive, stratum, strata