Many people believe that they can signal care or concern for people by utilizing theatrical and novel pseudo academic language. Since we changed the term from Homeless to Unhoused the homeless problem has gotten way better although the unhoused problem has gotten
Bill: Hi Betty what do you think about the homeless problem?
Betty: Do you mean the unhoused problem? Well I think it’s very serious and you can see that from my use of this latest accepted synonym for homeless.
Bill: ok well that doesn’t really solve the problem, calling them by a different name. It almost feels like you think saying that new word makes you think you’re doing something about it that i’m not.
Betty: precisely.