Homelessness vs houselessness

Homelessness vs  houselessness

The majority of people think that this words means the same, but this is not true, they define different situations that sadly people affront day by day in this world

lonely and rejected

The national health care for the homeless council say that homeless is “is an individual without permanent housing who may live on the streets; stay in a shelter, mission, single room occupancy facilities, abandoned building or vehicle; or in any other unstable or non-permanent situation”, and is right, but this word homeless have a deeper mean, if we analyze this word, the most relevant part is home, and what is home? 

Home is not a building or the shelter where you live,

homeless in your own house

home is where live people that you love and they love you, exactly where your heart is, so the term homeless have a bigger connotation than only a person that don’t have a house, is more like an emotional problem, where you feel rejected by everyone, where you feel that you didn’t belong anywhere, for this reason, you can be a homeless even in your house

If we talk about houseless is a more simple definition, is when you don’t have a place for sleep or this place is not secure or healthy for that person, in this case, a houseless have still connection with the society, and frequently they affront this situation with people that love them

Even this terms are different, is possible that you can be a houseless and a homeless at the same time, because you can be living in the streets with the feeling that nobody want you, situation that frequently induce suicide in this kind of people

References

council, n. h. (2017). What is the official definition of homelessness? Recovered  15 / May / 2017, available in: https://www.nhchc.org/faq/official-definition-homelessness/