Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020)

Just as a point of comparison, one of the programs San Francisco introduced during the pandemic was "safe sleeping sites", which are parking lots where homeless can have their tent without it being periodically swept by police. To that, they add chemical toilets, a water supply and (I'm not sure why) 24/7 security staff. For this, the city pays around $60k per tent site per year. I'm not sure if this is in part due to some unsavory relationship between…

Hey, I live there! Emigrated from the good old US of A two years ago. I want to point out one upstream reason why this is possible which isn't really talked about enough: On the margin, Finland has been better at providing actual numbers of rental units than any of the major cities I lived in in the US (Boston, NYC, Chicago). I live in one of those hundred-story virtually unadorned 'concrete suburbs' on the edge of town and the…

To help contextualize this so I understand the situation better, can someone compare and contrast what treatment for debilitating mental health issues such as schizophrenia looks like in Finland vs. the US? The second issue is, In the last 10 years, the “Housing First” programme provided 4,600 homes in Finland. In 2017 there were still about 1,900 people living on the streets. In the US, there are something like half a million people living on the streets.