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by emh68 523 days ago
1. Build a house for each homeless person

2. Remove them from the homeless count, because they now have a house.

3. Reach zero homelessness!

4. There are still people living on the streets... But we don't call them homeless!

2 comments

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. From the article, basically no one was sleeping on the streets in Finland in 2020.
I don't know where the #4 is from, but I can point to https://kritisches-netzwerk.de/sites/default/files/homelessn... with a more complete breakdown:

  Types of homelessness | Living Alone | Long-term homeless
  ----------------------+--------------+-------------------
  Temporarily living    |    2 773     |      522
  with friends and      |              |
  relatives             |              |
  ----------------------+--------------+-------------------
  Outside, in           |      721     |      186
  stairwells, in        |              |
  temporary             |              |
  shelters, etc.        |              |
  ----------------------+--------------+-------------------
  In dormitories        |      489     |      195
  or hostels            |              |
  ----------------------+--------------+-------------------
  In institutions       |      358     |      151
at least now they can't say there's no home for them, it's just choice - some prefer that way.