• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      12 hours ago

      That’d make some sense since often behind the homelessness there’s substance abuse, addiction or mental health issues. From what I know in Finland that’s pretty much all homeless.

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        10 hours ago

        This is an old-fashioned idea that an hour on Zillow will dispel.

        Finland’s government doesn’t bend over backwards to fuck over its own citizens, so it would make sense if that’s one of the only places on earth where the usual lie about the cause of homelessness being individual instead of societal is actually true.

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          10 hours ago

          I don’t know what Zillow is but I’m of course talking about area around me since that’s what I know. I think it’s the same for everyone. Also not sure what lie you mean, I wasn’t saying it’s a personal issue. Addiction and mental health can have societal causes too.

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        12 hours ago

        Mostly the issue is shelters drug test and have curfews, and even then they fill up quick and have problems with theft and shit.

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          11 hours ago

          Sorry my statement was ambiguous. I mean we send those people to prison instead of trying to help them. So then prisons become the those things, but shittier.

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            10 hours ago

            Well, of course we usually only send people to prison if they’ve actually committed a felony, for homeless related stuff (that I don’t even think should be a crime, but what am I gonna do) it’s usually no more than a few days in jail or straight up catch and release. Prison is usually reserved for sentences longer than 2y.