How to Use rehouse in a Sentence

rehouse

verb
  • The organization is working to rehouse families who were displaced in the fire.
  • For 15 years, she's nursed them back to health and rehoused them in the US.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Sep. 2019
  • More than 30 cats have been rehoused after putting their best paws forward at Moon Cat.
    Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Many wonder if the government will keep its promise to rehouse them in the same district.
    Sabra Ayres, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
  • Those rehoused, Mr Zhao thinks, end up with a new house, no savings, no job and 600 yuan a year of income support—not nearly enough to live on.
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That’s a daunting number of new people to rehouse in any city, but Tulsans weren’t worried.
    Lizzy Saxe, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The upshot is that they are rehoused—or, rather, housed—in a small rural community, with a school for Tom and a job, felling Christmas trees, for Will.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
  • The land of the free has a proud history of resettling refugees from far-off places, rehousing many more than any other country.
    The Economist, 20 July 2019
  • While that was less than the amount that went to vouchers and landlord outreach, rapid-rehousing funded housing for 55 percent of the veterans.
    Gary Warth, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Most of the surviving families are still living in hotels, waiting to be rehoused.
    Anna Codrea-Rado, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May said after the fire that every resident would be rehoused in three weeks.
    Sarah Tilotta, CNN, 13 June 2018
  • This is feeding fears that instead of living in low-rises homes in green, residential spaces in Moscow they’ll be rehoused in vast skyscrapers on the outskirts of the city.
    Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 14 May 2017
  • And Dallas may soon offer more rapid rehousing aid for families living on the brink of homelessness.
    Obed Manuel, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
  • The effort to shelter the families is funded through Sept. 30, Hogan said, but efforts to rehouse the families through rental subsidy programs have waitlists of 60 days or more, Hogan said.
    Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Some mayors in the region have complained openly about not getting enough funding to rehouse thousands who still remain displaced in the region.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • People also fear they could be rehoused in areas far from public transportation.
    Marc Bennetts, Newsweek, 22 May 2017
  • Danny Rose has attracted interest from across Europe, but is yet to find a new home – although transfer deadline variation means that Spurs still have the best part of a month to rehouse him.
    SI.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Without enough property owners willing to open their doors and accept housing vouchers, Robinson says the program could stall before reaching its goal of rehousing 2,700 people by the end of the year.
    Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Amid the pandemic, Fiji has needed to rehouse families because of erosion from climate change.
    Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Now, their vacation homes -- including a castle in Ireland -- are being used to rehouse people who have lost everything.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 26 Mar. 2022
  • But, services for rehousing and eviction prevention funded by HUD aren't available to everyone.
    al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • In general only those deemed to be in vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, very young and people with serious health problems are eligible for rehousing on the mainland.
    Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Another was rehoused after initially being housed in a basement apartment with a rotting bathroom floor, mice, and dangerous electrical hook-ups, the review said.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • For the full go-ahead to be given, however, Palace must rehouse residents of the six homes that require demolishing and improve local transport facilities for supporters.
    SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The fire has acted as a focal point for anger at local authority funding cuts and, if more buildings are deemed unsafe, the government faces the task of rehousing people within existing social housing facilities which are stretched.
    Michael Holden, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 June 2017
  • The museum also partnered with the Fashion Institute of Technology to organize and rehouse the textiles that were affected, which include collections of Cantonese opera costumes and qipaos.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Housing Forward also shared data about the homeless response system’s effectiveness at rehousing people, which has a goal of making homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring.
    Leah Waters, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Cavanaugh’s proposal calls for taking about $1.2 million from Sacramento Steps Forward’s outreach worker and rehousing programs.
    Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Ginger Hitzke, an affordable housing developer in Solana Beach, California, attempted to rehouse people displaced by the demolition of a slumlord’s apartments in the 1990s.
    Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Portland Homeless Family Solutions will operate the 24-hour shelter, which will also provide families with mental health care, life skills classes, rehousing assistance and other services at the site.
    oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019

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