Between 2011 and 2015, there was a 41% increase in unsheltered women in Portland, and a 48% increase of unsheltered African Americans between 2013 and 2015.
The spectre of 50,000 ethnic Albanians braving winter unsheltered, and of another 250,000 souls displaced, has concentrated minds in the corridors of power.That, in part, is why both diplomatic and military preparations for a NATO intervention in Kosovo have speeded up.
Yet it has often been found justifiable on economic or strategic grounds to construct a complete harbour on a relatively unsheltered coastline by enclosing an area with breakwaters built from the shore, with openings of minimum width for entry and exit of ships.
She was left struggling to make her car payments each month as her Honda sat in a city lot, unused and unsheltered from the elements.
At regular intervals along the way, red telephones stood up surreally above the ferns — landline desk telephones of the three-pound push-button vintage, unsheltered, each resting on a square redwood board supported by a redwood stake.
Paradoxically this occurs through his realizing that, unsheltered in an uncaring universe, we are all ultimately as helpless as infants.
I have no idea what the shores of Illyria were like, but watching "Twelfth Night" unsheltered by protective covering helps usher us into the experience of the play's shipwrecked characters.
On a more local and personal plane, I needed to reflect on my own sorry failures: I was shaken by my fearfulness and the collapse I observed of my warrior self when during the worst of the storm I lost any sense of social responsibility and just caved, became isolated, felt unsheltered.
According to the latest point-in-time survey, 92.8% of Hawaii's chronically homeless individuals are unsheltered, the highest rate in the nation.
Without local charities disabled people would lose access to their communities, hospital appointments would be missed; animals would go unsheltered.
An official count last January found nearly 7,000 homeless people in San Francisco – about 70% of them unsheltered.
