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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by annzabelle on Friday January 10, 2025 @05:22PM (#42660946)
I was responding to the commenter above me discussing the phenomenon of mentally disturbed people sleeping rough and I think that's been a small phenomenon in Finland the entire time due to their different history with mental health, with economic homelessness being most of what they've reduced via housing first.

To clarify, I don't know much about Finnish mental health in particular as opposed to the general trends in Northern Europe.

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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by teractiveodular on Friday January 10, 2025 @05:53PM (#42661241)
Sleeping rough has always been rare in Finland for the simple reason that it gets down to -20 quite often in winter. Freezing to death is not an uncommon fate for alcoholics.
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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by darth_avocado on Friday January 10, 2025 @06:25PM (#42661559)
There’s a reason why you have lower homeless population in the temperate zone than in the tropical zone of the world.
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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by lotsofpulp on Saturday January 11, 2025 @10:32AM (#42666497)
Temperate usually means “mild”, or easily survivable.

If using the technical term, I think you might mean “Continental climate”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_climate

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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by darth_avocado on Saturday January 11, 2025 @08:24PM (#42670382)
Nope. I used the right term. I said temperate zone not climate.

From the very Wikipedia article you shared:

> The north temperate zone extends from the Tropic of Cancer (approximately 23.5° north latitude) to the Arctic Circle (approximately 66.5° north latitude). The south temperate zone extends from the Tropic of Capricorn (approximately 23.5° south latitude) to the Antarctic Circle (at approximately 66.5° south latitude).[4][5]

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