yet all are categorized as “homeless” or as “unhoused.” But, as we have seen, such labeling stemmed from an advocacy effort aimed at convincing us that the problem is poverty and the solution is spending more money on housing and services for the homeless and not, say, shelter and abstinence-contingent housing. One word, “homeless,” entails an entire, insidious discourse that acts unconsciously and subliminally on our hearts and minds, rendering us unable to understand the reality before us.
