It looks like Finland is similar to my country in this respect; homeless people don’t need to be homeless in the first place as, even if everything falls down (

It looks like Finland is similar to my country in this respect; homeless people don’t need to be homeless in the first place as, even if everything falls down (financially or (whatever)abuse wise), they still are entitled to state support. They get state housing, but here, at least in the summer, I know quite a few who choose to sleep on the streets anyway. They have mental illnesses (they get help for) and they like begging (wearing clean clothes mostly) as a means of socialising (that’s how I got to know them; they come over when you sit at bars and when you don’t give money right away they start talking). The problem is generally not comparable to some other countries; if you do see horrible scenes like in some US neighbourhoods (drug zombies, crack prostitutes, drug dealers, violence), they are extremely rare here and almost exclusively involve a tiny group of illegal immigrants. They are usually removed pretty quickly and, presumably, taken to an immigrant center (where they get beds and food) to be processed for either legal immigration or redirected to their home country.