- The use of the term “unhoused” as a euphemism for homelessness is becoming increasingly popular in progressive circles, but it is a mistake.
- The term “homeless” should be used instead, as it conveys a whole world of social and cultural and economic information that we have spent a lifetime processing.
- Avoiding the word “homeless” is ostensibly a matter of avoiding stigma, but homelessness should be stigmatized in order to generate a solution to the problem.
- The solution to homelessness is to end it, not to avoid talking about it in stark terms.
Click HERE for original. Published December 15, 2022
