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    1 year ago

    There will always be homeless people, the ones we have are either crashing or simply do not want to live inside (due to a multitude of reasons involving decades of living in the streets with substance abuse and mental issues). The only folk you’ll find here sleeping on benches are aforementioned and students who have had one too many. Plenty of benches for both and even if all benches are turned into chairs we’ve got intoxication centres and housing available for those who prefer it.











  • would be decried as Socialism and Communism in the United States

    Ok? If the definition of communism is whatever Americans decry as socialist/communist, then a whole lotta things are communist.

    The free market didn’t fix the housing crisis the government did.

    Your point being? That Finland isn’t a capitalist country? That wide social safety nets can’t exist within a capitalist society? Real Communism™ are the things capitalist countries do that end up being good, while somehow actual communist countries aren’t real communist countries since they ended up shafted? Any other borderline psychotic conclusion you want me to jump to or is this all?


  • what Communism did to Finland.

    Nothing, that’s why the country works and it’s the sole reason why Finland is the economical and progressive exception to rest of eastern europe. Had Finland been subjected to forms of fascism, such as communism, we too would have to battle for basic human rights (eg. trans rights are non-existant under communist regimes, and unfortunately that sentiment is still rooted in ex-block values) and economical and institutional downturns rest of the old communist block countries are now hard at work at dismantling. It’s crazy how destructive one sick ideology can be to a region and it’s people.

    But yeah, we did - under capitalism - fix homelessness by literally giving housing to everyone who wanted housing.