The Need for Genuine Housing: A Chronically Unhoused Person’s Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Whether a person experiencing homelessness (PEH) lives in currently existing shelters or outdoors, the experience of being unhoused in Canada can involve physical, psychological and emotional damage, caused by sensory overload, sleep deprivation, harassment, and other factors. Currently existing non-private shelters cannot meet the basic physiological needs of many PEH, and can unintentionally obstruct them from maintaining employment. This means that many PEH effectively have no path to genuine housing. Both shelters and supportive housing arrangements commonly offer shelter or housing on the implicit or explicit condition that clients comply with psychiatric or addiction referrals, and such requirements do not reflect the reality that not all PEH are mentally ill or substance users. In this article, I offer a definition of genuine housing. I argue that Canada’s social assistance systems should transition to the use of single-occupancy shelters and/or affordable apartment buildings, and that social work to the unhoused should be re-oriented toward social justice, de-emphasizing explicit and implicit conditionality and compliance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".