Is it OK to use the word ‘homeless’ – or should you say ‘unhoused’?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/homeless-unhoused-houseless-term-history

Read this article from the Atlantic to learn more about this important issue.  “It’s a powerful way to remind us that the issue is really a housing problem,” ...“I think that’s useful: there can be a tendency to think about homelessness in more individualistic ways, like it’s a person’s personal failing or the result of their life choices. When really the most important thing is that we just don’t have enough affordable housing in this country.”

Some advocates think the newer word doesn’t go far enough. “Homeless, houseless, unhoused: they’re abstract and kind of euphemisms. I prefer ‘housing-deprived’, but it’s a mouthful,” said Jonathan Russell, chief strategy and impact officer at Bay Area Community Services.

Still, asserted Mark Horvath, founder of the advocacy organization Invisible People and himself formerly unhoused, “most homeless people still say homeless.”

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