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  • verb Present participle of rehouse.

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Examples

  • And then there are several among those who never made it to Lallubhai despite living among the same populations who were to be 'rehoused' - the process of rehabilitation and the political dynamics are in no way equal for all - some get the house, some decide to move out, some are deprived, and much more than what I can know and tell … And as for the sanitized living, the more seen, the better - the poor garbage lifting facilities, the overflowing drains between the buildings, the lack of water until water is fought for as an entitlement, and the teeming rats - yes certainly, sanity and sanitation have to be rethought as much as the idea and practice of the slum have to be reconsidered.

    Kafila 2009

  • The report also revealed that in September 2010 Japan became the first Asian country to accept refugees as part of the official resettlement programme and rehoused 18 families from Myanmar.

    UNHCR report says refugee numbers at 15-year high 2011

  • "They will have to be rehoused in communities that may not have the homes for them or the jobs or the school places."

    Housing benefit cuts: what's the real truth? Jamie Doward 2010

  • The grey and green birds stand accused of building huge communal nests and causing power blackouts, and the 150 or so that have established themselves in Britain are to be shot or, if you can offer a secure cage, perhaps rehoused.

    Invasive species: Killer shrimps and English parrots | Editorial 2011

  • The report also revealed that in September 2010 Japan became the first Asian country to accept refugees as part of the official resettlement programme and rehoused 18 families from Myanmar.

    UNHCR report says refugee numbers at 15-year high 2011

  • Now married to his second wife and rehoused in a splendid—but, he assures me, comparatively modest—contemporary villa, he has embarked on what he calls "my third life."

    The Third Life of a 'Half-Amateur' J. S. Marcus 2011

  • Policymakers should closely monitor the rates at which rapidly rehoused families return to the shelter system and should anticipate that the recent 2009 HPRP and HEARTH funding, which dramatically shifted homeless services towards rapid rehousing, will have unintended consequences.

    Ralph da Costa Nunez: One Size Does Not Fit All: Rapid Rehousing and Homeless Families Ralph da Costa Nunez 2010

  • People who think that product design ‘shapes the way we live’ should be permanently rehoused on a Midlands sink estate and mugged repeatedly until they develop better theories about the relationship between aesthetics and social formation.

    November « 2008 « Squares of Wheat 2008

  • The first 40 linear feet of the collection I rehoused consisted of payment vouchers to Civil War soldiers signed by Frank Etting, General Paymaster.

    The complicated story of the A.A. Humphreys papers « Fondly, Pennsylvania: Notes from Archives and Conservation 2010

  • Policymakers should closely monitor the rates at which rapidly rehoused families return to the shelter system and should anticipate that the recent 2009 HPRP and HEARTH funding, which dramatically shifted homeless services towards rapid rehousing, will have unintended consequences.

    Ralph da Costa Nunez: One Size Does Not Fit All: Rapid Rehousing and Homeless Families 2010

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