Sentence examples for label homeless from inspiring English sources

They avoid shelters and other adult services, and often reject the label "homeless" because of the stigma, officials said.

We feel a sense of righteousness when we label homeless people as lazy addicts, who could turn their lives around if they just wanted to work.

"Just because we're labeled homeless doesn't mean we're second-class citizens, and we shouldn't be labeled as such," Ms. Fardan said.

Tammy Renault says her family is getting a crash course in what it means, socially, to be labeled homeless.

I also borrowed my wife Faye's blue egg bucket and labeled it "Homeless".

Regardless, his story is emblematic of thousands of similar arrests nationwide, where people living on our streets are arrested under vagrancy laws, for panhandling or sleeping in public, to name just a few ordinances criminalizing what we really could label "Existing While Homeless".

Another factor that influenced how these individuals processed "new label" identities - homeless and mentally ill – and associated stigmas, was how these were perceived in their culture and/or birth country.

But Julie Dworkin, director of policy for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, said applying labels to the homeless was misguided.

One book labels him "Sherlock Homeless", stapling together the two features that may best characterize him.

Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has strongly rejected the UN's "homeless ban" label.

The world's gossip pages have nicknamed him the "homeless billionaire," a label he dismisses as an irritating distraction.