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Trying to figure what marginal benefit calling people "unhoused" as opposed to homeless might have, I mean maybe someone's living situation shouldn't be the defining thing about a personal, we shouldn't reify someone's predicament and there is all the dehumanization that goes with that.

BUT being without a legal residence is a *class* position, it's an empirical social fact, you won't get ride of these structural problems by changing a word, likewise, like other class characteristics, being unhoused is not part of one's being like one's physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or even religion, it's almost entirely forced upon a person by the structure of private property.

So unlike anti Italian bigotry, where all we have to do to stop oppressing Italians is by refraining from using hurtful language like "wop" or [redacted] or "greaseball" or "gumba" or "spaghetti brain", you can just choose not to shout "go eat some gabba goo ya wop g___ greaseball!" At every Italian american one encounters

Mama mia

But it dont think it'll work that way with homelessless, I mean people do harass/attack unhoused people all the time (dont do that please) but then cops are paid to do that, in fact city governmemts spend all day dreaming up ways to fuck over homeless people