Definition of homeless
:having no home or permanent place of residence
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Tickets for the dinner and auction are $75, and funds support St. Vincent de Paul's work with people who are homeless or poor.
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Almost half of New York City’s homeless youth identify as LGBTQ.
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The agency regularly serves lunches for homeless individuals, serving over 1,300 last year.
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But through the devastation and disaster — even as families remain stranded, homeless and hungry — Black people have found a way to survive and make each other laugh.
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Some of the city’s homeless people took refuge in low-lying spaces under highways before the storm hit;
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Never one to shy away from a difficult cause—her work with AIDS patients and the homeless in the 1980s and early '90s was also groundbreaking—
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Back then a state-of-the-art, 80,000-square-foot complex dedicated to helping the city’s homeless population seemed like a pipe dream.
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Seeso’s deepest and most urgent show—the sweet, funny, and politically sharp Take My Wife—is still homeless.
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First Known Use of homeless
before 12th century
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