They are homeless as the result of a personal crisis that they were not able to get beyond without help. The first group - that some say is no more than 6% of the homeless - are homeless for reasons other than house prices. So how do we refer to those people who are homeless for no better reason than flat-lined fixed incomes and massively inflating house prices forced them out of the housing market? Without a roof over one’s head, on the streets, vagrant, sleeping rough, living rough, destitute, down and out, derelict, itinerant, dossing, of no fixed abode, homeless people, vagrants, down-and-outs, tramps, beggars, vagabonds, itinerants, transients, migrants, derelicts, drifters, beachcombers, hobos, bagmen, knockabouts, overlanders, sundowners, whalers, streeties, bag ladies dossers bums, bindlestiffs derros outies people of no fixed abode The rest of usīut what about the rest of us? There is no doubt that the list of synonyms above is actually how the world pictures a homeless person. (of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets. If you look you look at synonyms for the word homeless you will see something like the following: Is your grandmother “a vagrant, derelict, tramp, beggar, vagabond, bag lady, bum, derro, hobo”? No? Chances are she’s just dispossessed Who are the homeless?

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