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Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid by MichaelCollins on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:50AM (#33625088)
Huh? If you live in a condo, you have no house but you are not homeless. A house is only one kind of shelter that can be a home, of many.
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Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:13AM (#33625530)
It could also refer to the difference between living in someone's spare room, couch surfing, or living in a camper van vs having a home (rented or bought).
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Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid by MichaelCollins on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:27AM (#33625777)
> living in someone's spare room

Children living with their parents don't own houses, but they aren't homeless either. Or adults for that matter. For a few years in college I lived in a spare room in my grandparent's house. I had no house of my own, but I certainly felt welcome and wasn't homeless by any means.

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Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid by rad88 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:25PM (#33630884)
There is no meaning of "housed" that implies "owns a house".
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