• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    What’s with the wording of this title? “Unhoused people” instead of “Homeless”/“Homeless people”

    • Blackmist
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      6 hours ago

      Homeless and “actually sleeps on the streets” are different things.

    • Famko@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      A home is an abstract thing, a house is a quantifiable object.

      Also it kind of implies that society should provide a house for them.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s like the difference between calling someone wittless and uneducated.

      One implies that’s just how the person is, the other implies a failing of society/family.

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      I like the word unhoused, it implies they should just be housed if they are homeless. Everyone should be housed, even if they don’t own a home