Solving homelessness

Somehow, treating vulnerable people with dignity by helping them out without strings attached helps our society overall. Who would've thought.

USA: Spends billions on hostile infrastructure to keep homeless people out of sight from the rich
Scandinavia: Just builds lots of free apartments, turning the homeless people into productive workers, thus injecting a lot more money into society
Capitalism only makes sense if you're exclusively looking out for yourself, and if you happen to be at the top.

They are not for nothing the country with the happiest people on the planet.

Yeah gotta love the American approach.

Have a problem?

Don't talk about it! 🤫 Hide it! Pretend it doesn't exist! Shoot it, arrest it, prosecute it, imprison it. Make a profit from it! Blame political party for it!

Wonder why the problem never goes away 🤔 fashion elaborate conspiracy theories. Complain about it!

Repeat.

American society and governance is thoroughly dysfunctional and that's why it's a failure.

India: let's just pretend they don't exist. and when someone visits, let's build big walls to hide them.

For what it's worth, they have cut down the number of public/park benches in some places in Finland too. Or at least that's what I noticed when I started developing foot problems and needed to sit down more. In the 2000s a lot of the benches in near area got replaced by railings you could lean on. Real benches might have been slowly starting to do a comeback in recent years though, and at least murderbenches were never in fashion.

Isaiah 3

14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

We still have those benches because there's still homeless and honestly them taking over those benches ruins it for everyone else. Not because they're homeless because they're almost always addicts and drunk people or people on drugs who might also have mental issues are a bit threatening and unpleasant to others.

But they didn’t solve it. They are doing something but there are still homeless people. Looks like their plan of action is definitely better though.

Simply start a business and you'll become wealthy just like the others.

If you look at the bench you can see aside from the ghoulish “handles” it is perfectly shaped for laying down on. It looks as if who ever made it wanted to rub in the fact that people are not allowed to lay on it.

See also: New Zealand's response to assault rifles within 2 days of a mass shooting.

Do they actually have enough housing to provide immediate housing to the homeless in Finland? If anyone spends the night on the street in Finland, during winter, they’ll die. How much of their homeless population dies waiting for that housing? I’m just curious. I’m not trying to be argumentative. If there is no wait time, I applaud them. America needs a housing solution for the homeless.

treated the same way they do with pigeons to stop them from nesting.. sad.

Sooo, we ship our homeless to Candy Island? Yes? 🎈

What happens when those people leave the housing provided and leave because they want their freedom to move around and be on the street again?

BUT MY TAXES ARE NEEDED TO BAIL OUT THE RICH!!!! - magats

False.

A lot of homeless people choose to be homeless. I remember I was talking to a homeless in downtown Los Angeles and he told me he used to be a housing contractor and was a millionaire. He said he preferred the street because he likes the drugs and likes to harass women with impunity. I was also told by other homeless that they don't like the housing projects and prefer being outside.

Edit: you can downvote me all you want but this is my experience. Sure there are many that want to be in homes but they also want no strings attached honestly for free like if they are babies.

Different take on the bench. The dividers allows for the pregnant and the disabled to sit. Which I believe is more important than letting some homeless sleep on that particular bench.