Unhoused? Has homeless as a word been banned?
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
(montreal.ctvnews.ca)
Not sure about Canada, but in the US:
Homeless = no permanent residence, which also includes couch surfing, parents and children who just fled an abusive family member and are temporarily ltaying with friends or relatives, and people who are living in their car. All people without a home.
Unhoused = homeless people that don't have a roof over their heads. Might include living in a car.
They are synonyms. Please don't make things up.
Edit: to all the knee-jerk downvoting. This is literally a quote from an article the user himself supplied as proof that there is a difference.
Unhoused is probably the most popular alternative to the word “homeless.” It’s undoubtedly the one I see most often recommended by advocates. But it doesn’t have a meaningful difference in connotation from the more common term, “homeless.”
It's literally just a pc synonym of homeless.
Welcome to the euphemism treadmill
In the US they mean different things, as homeless includes people living in other people's homes. That can include people whose house just burnt down and are living with friends or family because they lost their permanent residence (home). Unhoused is about where they are staying.
People on the street are homeless and unhoused.
And you really think people use and understand these terms like that?
You may be correct in the academic sense, but completely wrong in all other senses.
He isn't correct in an academic sense. They are synonyms. Unhoused is being used because homeless has negative connotation to it.
What's with the wording of this title? "Unhoused people" instead of "Homeless"/"Homeless people"
It's another one of those whack a mole words people are pushing. Once everyone gives in and we start using unhoused, it will suddenly switch to uninhabited because it's racists to houses or something!
It's annoying as hell, because instead of fixing the issues we're mastrubating about words and alienating people that we need to fix the issue.