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      5 days ago

      That’d make some sense since often behind the homelessness there’s substance abuse, addiction or mental health issues. From what I know in Finland that’s pretty much all homeless.

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        5 days ago

        This is an old-fashioned idea that an hour on Zillow will dispel.

        Finland’s government doesn’t bend over backwards to fuck over its own citizens, so it would make sense if that’s one of the only places on earth where the usual lie about the cause of homelessness being individual instead of societal is actually true.

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          I don’t know what Zillow is but I’m of course talking about area around me since that’s what I know. I think it’s the same for everyone. Also not sure what lie you mean, I wasn’t saying it’s a personal issue. Addiction and mental health can have societal causes too.

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        the cause of homelessness is pretty fucking obviously the price of homes, the fucking audacity to look at hundreds of thousands of employed people with otherwise normal lives who just cant afford to have a roof over their heads and proclaim that it is because they have mental health or drug problems rather than the self evident explanation that its corporate greed, its just something else.

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          Finland had in 2023 a total of 3429 homeless people. 2/3rds of those are temporary without home for a wide variety of reasons, including mental health or substance abuse issues, and that category is the main cause when talking about long term homeless that make up the remaining 1/3rd. I think based on that, saying “often behind the homelessness there’s substance abuse, addiction or mental health issues” makes perfect sense.

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            4 days ago

            bruh u are in the english speaking internet in a discussion about homelessness in the us, if u are ignorant of the situation thats ok but fuck off.

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                4 days ago

                first off not american eww dont disrespect me like that but second it literally is about america thats what the meme is about thats what everyone in the comments is talking about

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                    2 days ago

                    oh shit my bad how could i forget, every time u want to refer to something u MUST do so explicitly by name, sorry stupid mistake, how could i forget the most important rule of communication that literally everyone always follows because thats how things work.

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        5 days ago

        Mostly the issue is shelters drug test and have curfews, and even then they fill up quick and have problems with theft and shit.

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          5 days ago

          Sorry my statement was ambiguous. I mean we send those people to prison instead of trying to help them. So then prisons become the those things, but shittier.

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            Well, of course we usually only send people to prison if they’ve actually committed a felony, for homeless related stuff (that I don’t even think should be a crime, but what am I gonna do) it’s usually no more than a few days in jail or straight up catch and release. Prison is usually reserved for sentences longer than 2y.