Homeless no longer exist

[Great-Kazoo]

They're now being called the UNHOUSED


https://www.yahoo.com/news/los-angel...014508932.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/la-mayor-...032041623.html

[ray1970]

Eh. I prefer to refer to them as residentially challenged.

[BlasterBob]

Tramp, Hobo, Loafer, Down-and-out person. And on and on and on mixed descriptions. Common thought is that the majority of those folks have some type of mental “hang up”. Situation is really sad.

[Martinjmpr]

I thought they were "Urban Campers?"

[FoxtArt]

Dumb.

I use two terms:
1) Homeless, which I have some respect for. Many of these are or recently have been employed and live out of cars, or couch surf at friends houses. They do not associate in large groups with other homeless. Some going through a divorce, etc. I often help these, and helping this kind of "houseless" person has societal benefits.

2) Transient. Entirely comprised of drug addicts, often co-occurring with mental illness (in no small part because of the drugs), these are willfully "unhoused" leaches on society. They usually live in conglomeration of tents, in parks, along rivers, etc, dramatic increases in property and violent crime around them. There is no avenue to being a productive member of society. I don't EVER help these, as any assistance to transients is like feeding Amoeba - they just multiply and their problems multiply with them. I care very little if they up and croak.

-- one exception to the transient help. I don't have objection to the Rhode Island model, where once in prision, they set them up on anti-high prescriptions, and once free, they have a program to transition them into society while they keep them on anti-high prescriptions for life, for free. It's about the only model that has any success rate, of any percentage at all. The portland model where they give them tents, coats, food, services, etc. and no ramifications for crime while having them live on the street is beyond moronic. And Colorado largely follows the portland model.

[FoxtArt]

I am very sick of both groups of people being classified as one term, so that people can pretend that transients are = homeless. E.g. "not every homeless blah blah blah".

That's a much harder argument when using the word "transient".

[Aloha_Shooter]

Typical Stalinist-Leninist behavior, changing the language and redefining things so problems are no longer problems and your political opponents are the worst thing in human history.

[hollohas]

I use the good ol fashioned term "bum".

[eddiememphis]

The DPD uses the term "people experiencing homelessness" in their press releases.

[buffalobo]

I use the good ol fashioned term "bum".

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