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[quote=Anonymous]Lot of pages on this and most of the answers are wrong. It’s not about person-first or identity. The issue is that some people who do not have a house consider the place where they are residing to be a “home” that they consider themselves to have an attachment to and want that to be recognized by others. So someone that lives in a tent city in Franklin Square may consider that to be their home and want some recognition of that fact, even though they don’t have a house. In my experience, this is something of a minority of the unhoused/homeless community—most of them want an actual residence, be that a house or apartment, and do not consider their alternative lodging to be a “home” and therefore do not object to the term “homeless.” It’s the radical fringe like the “homeless homeboy” that used to live on 16th street that viewed himself as having some property rights on that corner.[/quote]
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