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A comment on Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success Story (2021). Parent comment

Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by fragmede on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:55PM (#42662241)
> This is completely detached from reality.

what's completely detached from reality is that the problem is so bad in (US) cities like NYC that it seems inconceivable that it isn't a universal truth that cities just have an indigent population that regularly threatens and sometimes follows through on threats of violence to passersby.

How did we let the problem get this bad‽

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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by mmooss on Saturday January 11, 2025 @12:10AM (#42663484)
> like NYC

You don't know how ridiculous that is. Stop watching propaganda and just visit NYC. I'm tempted to buy you a ticket. Or just ask someone who lives there.

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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by throwawayq3423 on Saturday January 11, 2025 @02:26PM (#42668288)
You can tell when people don't live somewhere and get their opinion of that place strictly from social media.

Makes you wonder how badly social media is distorting the rest of our lives.

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