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A homeless man in Paris, France. Homelessness is the condition and social category of people without a regular house or dwelling because are otherwise unable to acquire, maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence." The term homelessness may also include people whose primary night-time residence is in a homeless shelter, or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. The actual legal definition of "homeless" varies from country to country, or among different entities or institutions in the same country or region. The "unsheltered" are that segment of the homeless who do not have ordinary lawful acess to buildings in which to sleep. Such persons frequently prefer the term "houseless" to the term "homeless". Others may use the term street people which does not fully encompass all unsheltered in that many such persons do not spend their time on urban "street" environments, and to the contrary shun such locales and prefer mountains or, more often, lowland meadows, creeks and beaches.
Children sleeping in Mulberry Street – Jacob Riis photo New York, United States of America (1890) 
Although The Bowery once was synonymous with homelessness, it has since become an avenue of high-priced luxury condominiums that jockey for space with its past.
Homeless person in Rome
A homeless person’s shelter. 
Homeless person with dogs playing the recorder, Downtown Amsterdam, 2009. 
Sleeping homeless person in the corner of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, 2010 
Tents for homeless people on the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, December 2006 – January 2007, put there by the Enfants de Don Quichotte 
Homeless street dwellers in Mumbai, India. 
A homeless person’s shelter under a fallen willow tree in Australia. 
A homeless person sleeping at the bus stop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 
Homeless man in Tokyo 
Homeless man in Prague, Czech Republic Homelessness by country
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