The “house” part makes it weird in the US, at least, where the highest unhoused populations are also in places where the majority of dwellings are apartments and not house-houses. If you break “houseless” down to its component parts, I’ve been houseless virtually my whole adult life despite an unbroken streak of leases.
“Unhoused” is less “house”-dependent because there’s no separate verb form; you’re housed in your apartment because what else could fill in that blank, and that’s the one that’s in much more common use in coastal cities in my experience.
The “house” part makes it weird in the US, at least, where the highest unhoused populations are also in places where the majority of dwellings are apartments and not house-houses. If you break “houseless” down to its component parts, I’ve been houseless virtually my whole adult life despite an unbroken streak of leases.
“Unhoused” is less “house”-dependent because there’s no separate verb form; you’re housed in your apartment because what else could fill in that blank, and that’s the one that’s in much more common use in coastal cities in my experience.