Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness

Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by Nasrudith on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:28AM (#22201464)

Finland has forests which isn't really much but is far more than just tundra.

I think their advantages are essentially fundamentally geographic but deeply counterintuitive. The Nordics counter intuively may have the "advantage" of a harsh climate which both aids defense and promotes "sincere" cooperation due to a force outside their control and long term planning and infastructure. Don't prepare for winter and it kills you.

Conceptuallly it is essentially an inverse resource curse where a disavantage has a positive impact. Of course there are other unspoken factors to their success. Like all nations the geographic distance to trading partners has influence on growth.

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Re:Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating home... by hopia on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:56AM (#22202113)

I don't know why you're being downvoted, I believe you're on to something here.

The harsh climate has forced these countries to adapt, otherwise you'd simply perish in the past. Finland, having no conceivable natural resources like Norway, was forced to adapt by building a few thriving industries and excellent infrastructure to facilitate them.

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