Then we'll be right back where we started. The effort is based on the belief that people aren't not looking to stigmatize others, which this thread proves is untrue.

Every group in the world is stigmatized... I take that back... Every group in the Universe is stigmatized... Ever see a rendition of a space alien???... Big head, pencil neck, slight build, Tweety Bird legs... It's what we do as humans... And have done since we crawled out from under that rock... Changing and making up word ain't ever gonna change that... Dan

Understandable, I actually know quite a bit about it, not from being homeless, or should I say what it was15 years ago or so. I sat on a committee to "solve homelessness" formed by the mayor Mike "Rawdog" Rawlings in Dallas in the 2010-2014 era. I was a liaison for a group that deals with the homeless on their level and in their world day on a day to day basis. I approached it as an issue that was, as you said, not an issue to the sane people who made that choice for whatever reasons.

I spent a many hours visiting the areas of Dallas that were growing with homeless "living" in the area. The area of Mockingbird from 35 to Love Field was the area that was seeing a huge influx and there were a few communities that sprung up around and in the number of vacant building that the businesses were victims of the down turn in the economy of the early to mid 2000's. Also the first "Tent city" under the I 45 overhead downtown, I met a lot of them and already knew some from dealings with them in the past.

Myself and a female doctor from Parkland were not too popular with the stiffs that mostly ran the committee. We brought real facts and we were not there to make ourselves feel better or feel like we were saving humanity. So many were wealthy people who either wanted to feel or look as if they were being the saviors or ones that did not care where they lived as long it was not in their neighborhoods or around their businesses. Also you had a few that were looking for the unicorn at the end of the rainbow with all the good feelings and puppy dog kisses.

Heck I even brought the "mayor" of the homeless camp off W. Mockingbird between Harry Hines and 35 behind the vacant warehouses and in the creek bottom there. He spoke to the committee and told them that they have their own hierarchy and they keep the mental people out of their group. He as well spoken and had a MBA from a college in the NE. He said that when the tech bubble burst in 2000 he lost a good job in the tech industry and there were no jobs to be had in his area of expertise anymore. He got a job here and it was supposed to be temp and his family stayed up north. Well he stayed longer, started hitting the strip clubs and snorting white party powder up his nose and basically tanked his career. He never went back. He said he used to have a lot of responsibility he was obligated to deal with every day of his prior life and now he only has to deal with what he chooses. He never went back to his prior life, his family or anything he knew before. Kind of sad in a way, but it was his choice.
He died 5 or so years later. He was a smart and well spoken man who chose that life over the corporate rat race and hectic family life.

Many were like him and chose to live that way. Though substance abuse helped send many down that path in life.


Ultimately the committee was responsible for the Bridge homeless center in Dallas being built. It's a bureaucratic nightmare, but does provide some essential services, though is a siphon for money. God only knows where all the money goes.

But still changing descriptive words for groups of people doesn't make things any better. Just another piece of the mind control narrative by the narcissistic left!!


Sorry for the long response.

Unhoused? Unarpartmented? Undonwannawork?

Just more D.E.I., Woke

There are many camps near my office... we can see them in their hidey holes from the 16th floor... you would not see them at street level unless you really looked.

Well one day I told my friend I says to her, "Friend, I bet if we went down in that field and set up tents, a coleman burner stove, couple of coolers with some cold ones in them, started a little fire and roasted some marsh mellows... we would get kicked out. No camping allowed! BUT if youre cracked out and do it, its fine..."

All of the ones I see around my Office there near loop 12 and 75 are clearly on drugs. There is even a young female who sleeps in the middle of the median on the 75 surface road there... traffic going by 60 mph a foot from her head, she is so high she does not know if its day or night... and she lays there both day and night. Sad really.

And dont think that the pharma companies and then later the cartels and our open borders are not to blame for a HUGE portion of what we are seeing as far as all these folks "experiencing homelessness" popping up all over... they damn well are!

this
my wife just brought food to Arlington Life Shelter
the folks there are legitimate
1 flat tire can finish some families off
education or lack of
seems to be a common issue

I flew out to the west coast a few weeks ago and rented a car. Plane and everything was running late and I gave up on reaching my destination that night so I stopped at a cheap motel. It was over $100, but the cheapest in town. Some young guys loading their cars in the parking lot showed me where I could get coffee the next morning. Since they seemed to know their way around so I asked where they were from. They were locals that alternated days sleeping in their cars and getting a motel room. One of them worked at a restaurant and the other said he worked at a hardware store. They said one bedrooms apartments there are $1500-$2000/month, and you have to show pay stubs to prove that you make three times that to qualify. Even if a restaurant worker did make $75 a year, they probably wouldn't be able to prove it with a pay stub.

Did you tell them to vote democratic

The ones I see are drinking and high on dope... Half my age it's really sad I had to make that decision one day 18 years ago now... How life can change is amazing to me...

is this like poor vs unrich , ugly vs unhansom , fat vs unskinny , chili vs beanstew ?

I had a pot roast from Grandy's today for lunch it suxed

This is a funny play on words…. Homeless took the phrase away from hobo, bum, drifter, vagabond…. You name it.

Changing the term doesn’t change reality. It just makes the social justice warriors feel better about themselves about what they are calling the people who don’t have homes and are bums.

In 10 years “unhomed” will be derogatory but still mean you’re homeless and a bum or beggar.

Yep. Years and tens of thousands of dollars spent on degrees to become a social worker and all they can come up with is changing terms. Changing the label on that statistic will certainly help.