There aren't that many homeless killed by the harsh winter any more (or in decades). There were in the 1950s. > This is clearly not so, because the source I ga

There aren't that many homeless killed by the harsh winter any more (or in decades). There were in the 1950s. > This is clearly not so, because the source I gave shows long-term homeless people in Finland, who survived winter using "tent villages and huts". The source you gave is an Australian magazine, and what was said in it was not accurate. There were indeed "tent villages and huts" during that time, but they were 1) there only in the summer 2) predominantly transient people that were a part of a human trafficking scheme from southern Europe. I do remember these tent villages as there were two near where I lived at that time. Tent camping is not legal in city areas and they were effectively evicted. There are some transient people still living in allowed camping areas during the summer, but mostly the transient people are now housed somewhere by the people trafficking them. During the late 20th century there were a few homeless villages built in shacks in urban wastelands (near the airport and close to garbage dump sites) but they were of a more permanent nature. Winter in Finland is not survivable in a tent without constant heating. The shacks were built from waste materials and had rudimentary insulation and heating. They were built on waste sites where fuel (wood and garbage) is readily available. The most "famous" site is Simosentie, Vantaa, next to the airport (remains of the "houses" are still there). These shack villages had mostly disappeared by the early 2000s. The homeless of the 1950s were predominantly war-torn men with mental and addiction problems. Due to their service to their country a decade earlier, Finns adopted an understanding and forgiving attitude to homelessness which is to some degree still present to this date.