In the US we must stop referring to drug addicts as "homeless" when they have been turned away from public or temporary housing because they have elected to do drugs instead.

It's obvious that this creates a misleading perception among the public about the causes of people living outside the social norm of paying for the right to stay in a private space.

The danger of that is that when unchecked, the public votes and government acts based on this misconception. That converts to public policy which aims to solve the wrong problem at the cost of the wrong people.