Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They also have a relatively small monocultural population and really cold winters.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    True, but they could just decide to ignore homeless people like most of the US and other capitalist countries have, but they didn’t.

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    • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If they did ignore it, by spring there would be less homelessness.

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  • Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How does having a monocultural population make housing easier?

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    • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      one of the main reasons people are against state housing is because people with the wrong skin color might get it

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      • Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I was going to let him say something obtusely racist and then roast him, but this works too.

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      • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s not always quite so clear-cut racist. Often it’s more about social norms and food choices. When everyone shares an insular culture, it’s easier to live near each other without having to be actively tolerant of people’s differences. And the social nets that ARE set up are more likely to work for people with a shared cultural background.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It doesn’t, that’s just a bullshit, half baked “argument” people like to use when someone points out to them that Scandinavian nations have figured most of this shit out already.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As a Finn, please stop talking about us as some kind of utopia. We haven’t solved shit and our government is infested with fascists. I’m preeetty sure there are a lot more than 1000 out there, most of them drug addicts and immigrants.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You still have better educational system.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But Finland only has like 2000 people. /s

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s good to hear, although it’s kinda beyond the scope of my question. I’m asking more about how to stop prices rising when they’ve suddenly started quickly rising and people don’t know why.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah I was going to say Finland. Their public housing system should be an example for other nations to follow.

  They won’t, of course…

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