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Worth pointing out that Finland has a much more sparse population density than the United States, with the United States having about 35 people per square kilom
by starttoaster 3y ago
Worth pointing out that Finland has a much more sparse population density than the United States, with the United States having about 35 people per square kilometer, to Finland's 16. This might enable them to create even cheaper buildings in less desirable parts of their country, though on the flip side, I don't know that all of Finland's land is considered "liveable", basically being in the North Pole. Looking at their homelessness statistics, they've been on a downward trend for homelessness since 1989, having about 17,000 homeless individuals. So assuming that's around the time they started working to put homeless people in houses, I'll use that as their baseline. I'm not sure how accurate the census is on the homeless population in the US, but according to the following link we have about 582,000:
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/ https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
I guess the question here is: does Finland's assisted living solution scale to the size of the United States' homeless problem? And I truly don't have that answer, but while I think it's valuable to point out the patterns that other countries have done to course correct their issues, I think it's also fair to say not every pattern that smaller countries use will work at scale, or even work with our current economic and social systems.