mishoused

comparative more mishoused · superlative most mishoused · alternative mis-housed

1. Provided with a dwelling or setting that is inadequate.

   Cohousing still serves only a tiny fraction of the population; the majority of people seem to be mishoused.

   2015, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Jacqueline Vischer, Edward White, Design Intervention, page 10

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   The obvious remedy for this problem is the provision of suitable accommodation for all these mishoused patients.

   1967, Barbara Robb, Sans Everything: A Case to Answer, page 124

   It is the source of many discontents among the millions of mishoused and dishoused families yearning to be rehoused.

   1975, George Albert Steiner, Business and Society, page 297

   Against the odds, the then head of museums and galleries, Peter Jenkinson, in addition to providing an appropriate setting for the long-mishoused Garman Ryan Collection, envisaged the potential of bringing high culture to the lowest common denominator — no slight intended; the Walsall gallery has Woolworth's and Bhs as its neighbours.

   2003, The Architects' Journal - Volume 217, Issues 13-25, page 59