[laserdancepony]

> [...] instead of being allowed to build homes for themselves [...]

With whose money shall they build themselves homes? My money? I can't afford building a home for my family _despite_ being employed full time. So that solution you're implying would result in even more hatred. Rightfully so.

[dvasdekis]

Migrants often come to the country with the physical skills, but not the certifications to do work like construction. I used the word 'allowed' in this context to mean that they, generally, lacked the ability to negotiate the complex modern construction standards of the Swedish state.

Mankind has been building homes for itself for 1.8 million years.[1] It's the norms of what constitutes a home (electricity, indoor plumbing, double glazing, certification) that have shifted, and I do not believe the migrants stood any chance of building homes compliant with modern swedish codes.

To answer your question, I believe you could build a home better than any caveman on your days off. But I think you're saying you don't have the money or time to build a modern, compliant home with the features I mention above, or to purchase the land for it.

There is plenty of rural land on the outskirts of Malmo. Sweden allowing a ghetto of poorly-developed, noncompliant houses would have been better than the tent-city I saw.

When I lived there, I was living in a noncompliant shipping-container construction that the government had erected hastily for overseas students with special permission, and it was more than enough. I believe the migrants had sufficient skill to build shipping-container homes, but there wasn't the political will to allow this bypass of swedish building compliance and due process.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-built-the-first-hou...