homelessness vs status

homelessness and status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
homelessness	Yes	No	No	No
status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, status is a hypernym of homelessness; that is, status is a word with a broader meaning than homelessness:

homelessness: the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)
status: a state at a particular time

Other hypernyms of homelessness include condition.

homelessness (noun)	status (noun)
the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
	a state at a particular time