houselessnessEtymologyFrom houseless + -ness.nounLack of a house and any other roof; by extension, being out of house and home.“Houseless and Homeless. The estimate of the New York Housing Conference Secretary, Mr. Edward P. Doyle, that it will take half a billion dollars to overcome the present housing shortage, is probably not an exaggerated presentation of the plight New York is in in this respect. Furthermore, the housing-shortage conditions of New York reflect, proportionately, the conditions prevalent in almost every”Lack of a house but not of a home.“He said that his houselessness was not homelessness because he went to school in that community, was registered to vote there, and had been living in the teepee for seventeen years. He said that teepee was his home.”