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Never have I seen so many people with so many unworkable solutions to a problem take so long to come to the most obvious solution. Just give people homes. Don’t let people die on the street, it’s inhumane.
Sounds simple. But Finland is an insular society and has different social issues.
In my city, there was a push to put social housing in place, as most of the local homeless population lacked the skills to maintain a house by themselves. Mental illness and addiction together affect a very large part of the homeless population.
The result was that some people who sorely needed housing got some, and a lot of people refused to take part because they didn’t want to agree to other people’s rules.
And then the social housing attracted people from nearby communities so that it’s now full, but the majority of the local homeless from before the project started are still homeless.
Just saying that “just give everyone a home” may sound simple, but in reality is very complex.
Problem, the homes are getting full. The solution: Build more homes? Too complex.
The big issue I see is states that don't want to implement social housing programs just shipping their unhousedpeoples to states that do and overwhelming the systems created.
I live in Chicago, one of the locations that many migrants are being shipped to, but even here the city refuses to build additional housing, or even use it's Department of Housing to fund the refurbishing of it's hundreds of units of dilapidated housing. Ultimately if the solution doesn't enrich someone with money, it isn't something that will ever happen in most of the world.