• fox2263@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    As an aside, is unhoused really a better term for homeless? It sounds like a meme censor thing like unalive.

    They are without home, they are homeless. There’s nothing wrong with that surely.

    Or have the social censor extended their iron grasp to this too?

    • Bristlecone@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      “iron grasp of the social censors”… I don’t know what politically correct society you’re living in buddy, but this sounds like crying about woke shit to me

    • Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 hours ago

      I think the nuance here is that lacking a house doesn’t mean you’re lacking a home. A home is a much more complicated idea that involves family or community for many people, whereas a house is just a thing by contrast.

      That said, my understanding is that most people find the terms roughly equivalent, and I’ve never been either, so I might be misunderstand it.

      • Five@slrpnk.netOP
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        9 hours ago

        The rate of people living on the streets is not a constant across even all capitalist societies, ‘homeless’ describes a state without implying a cause. ‘Unhoused’ properly implies that people could have shelter, but the society they live in has failed to make houses available to them.