[piva00]

To be honest, homelessness in Stockholm is really, really low. The very few homeless I see here are in a couple of spots in the city (mainly by Östermalmstorgs t-bana) are there by choice and go into shelters most nights.

I don't ever see homeless people in tents or anything similar.

[bradleyjg]

I was there a little under a decade and saw plenty of vagrants. Not comparable to sf or anything but they were there.

If you’ve cleared it all up since then, kudos. But I don’t think it’s because public services were underfunded back then.

[piva00]

What kind of vagrants? There used to be tons of roma people panhandling but they aren't homeless, and since the pandemic they're much less numerous (I'd guess I see less than a 1/5 of what I used to).

I really don't think you saw "plenty" of homeless on the streets here, not now and not a decade ago. Panhandlers, beggars, etc. do exist but they aren't homeless.

I do not trust your anecdotal experience, not saying the issue doesn't exist but it's not even close to a problem and orders of magnitude less than anything I've experienced traveling in the USA, around the Bay Area, Texas (Austin/Dallas), New York, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and a few other places had a very acute and visible issue with homelessness that's incomparable with Stockholm.

So yes, public services being properly funded help a lot.

[mmooss]

Your evidence is some anecodtal experience from a decade ago? How do you know the causes of what you remember seeing?