Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness

Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by KarlKemp on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:03AM (#22201283)

Considering their mentioning of immigration, I fear (Edit: I was right, see replies) they see the the nordics‘ advantage as being almost entirely white.

That would not just be boorish, but also wrong: both Sweden and Morway (the two I just checked) have around 17% foreign-born residents, with more than half of those from outside the EU.

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by ramblerman on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:21AM (#22201412)

Race has nothing to do with it.

Rather the question is, does importing radically different cultures, and low skilled labor bear a cost on the welfare state.

This is a cost that is probably acceptable, and necessary, but we should keep an eye on the practical limits.

Norway has far more money to spend, and Finland has far lower foreign cultural migration, so they don't make fair examples.

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by champagneben on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:24AM (#22201437)

The unemployment rate for native Swedes is less than 4%. The unemployment rate for foreign-born Swedes is at around 20%. Regarding Sweden, from Wikipedia: 'First generation immigrants, for example, constituted 60% of economic welfare recipients in 2016, 73% of all unemployed and 53% of those serving long prison sentences.'

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