Technically people who are couch surfing, sleeping in tents in campgrounds, or sleeping in garages or caravans are homeless as are people living in crisis accommodation. "Unhoused" lowers the statistic to just people without a roof over their head.

Houseless is a way to make homeless people roll their eyes and stop listening to you. If you want an excuse to not do effective work, then its as easy as using that term.

My take is it really doesn't actually do much (except perhaps reduce the sense of blame in the term homeless - i.e. unhoused implies they should be housed).

However chuds hate it because of that implication, therefore critical support for the semantic shift.

Standard lib response of "We won't actually change anything but we will change a word and act like it is a bigger deal than actually helping with your problems."

to a significant extent, it's the euphemism treadmill, but the usual argument i have seen is that homeless implies an inherent/permanent state of being while unhoused implies a more temporary one.

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Functional illiteracy, they can read the words but not necessarily understand the full meaning of the paragraph. I do know one lady who is totally illiterate and has her grandkids read her mail to her, but she's ~90 and at least knows arithmetic.

I know plenty, including family members.