Europe’s elections saw gains for anti-immigration parties — but the breakthrough act in Finland was the Left Alliance, with 17% support. Its leader, Li Andersson, told Jacobin about why it did so well and how it defeated the far right.
lol, wtf is this site? It doesn't exactly seem reliable, and the idea that Finland has "ended" homelessness is complete horseshit. Sure, there's public housing, but there's also a massive queue of people waiting to get those public, relatively cheap apartments. The rest can just try their luck on the free market (read: pay rent or die, just like every other Western nation).
It's also extremely ironic to bring this up considering our current government is more likely to incinerate the homeless than eradicate homelessness.
They allegedly have eradicated homelessness recently
I hate to sound like some pedantic nerd, but ”eradicate” is a very strong word, and I've seen people seriously claim in the pastthat Finland has given all homeless people places to live.
They do love to flaunt this, but they have no actual political power so it's more like a wish or what they say their goals are, not that it has an impact.
I work with homeless people in my everyday and they are definitely not doing so well so this common Finnish country brand PR they love to say everywhere is an eternal annoyance to me when I see it on social media. It gets thrown around by libs a lot in places like Mastodon.
They allegedly have eradicated homelessness recently. Probably a big part of why they won, didn't sit around twiddling fingers.
They definitely have not done that.
Its what they claim
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
lol, wtf is this site? It doesn't exactly seem reliable, and the idea that Finland has "ended" homelessness is complete horseshit. Sure, there's public housing, but there's also a massive queue of people waiting to get those public, relatively cheap apartments. The rest can just try their luck on the free market (read: pay rent or die, just like every other Western nation).
It's also extremely ironic to bring this up considering our current government is more likely to incinerate the homeless than eradicate homelessness.
Theres some sort of video that went around with it too, can't pull it up right now
What video? Do you seriously think there's no homelessness in Finland?
https://yle.fi/a/3-12409059
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I hate to sound like some pedantic nerd, but ”eradicate” is a very strong word, and I've seen people seriously claim in the pastthat Finland has given all homeless people places to live.
They do love to flaunt this, but they have no actual political power so it's more like a wish or what they say their goals are, not that it has an impact.
I work with homeless people in my everyday and they are definitely not doing so well so this common Finnish country brand PR they love to say everywhere is an eternal annoyance to me when I see it on social media. It gets thrown around by libs a lot in places like Mastodon.