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Are you saying talking about the social safety net in Finland or the US? I don't understand the argument you're making, if anything the weakness of the social s
by noobermin 5y ago
Are you saying talking about the social safety net in Finland or the US? I don't understand the argument you're making, if anything the weakness of the social safety net in the US bolsters my argument that a larger fraction of homeless people in the US are just down on their luck relative to the fraction of homeless people in Finland.
EDIT: In order to avoid deepening the thread, may you restate your point so that I can understand what you mean?
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoFinland. Also I’m not sure how to evaluate “a large fraction of the homeless are just down in their luck.” Those are the easy cases that are more likely to get effective help already, even in more dysfunctional American cities. And if they aren’t, we have a much better chance of doing a better job there, since their problems are much easier to solve than those of the more chronic homeless. In fact, our first priority should be to prevent “down in their luck” homeless cases from becoming chronic “substance abuse/mental illness” homeless cases.