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Brent Toderian Jul 8, 2023

This is REALLY important.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” 
Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.
 #Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

scoop.me

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Séan Billings Jul 8, 2023

@BrentToderian There's no shortage of people who view poverty as a moral failing. Talk to them about homelessness and all they are concerned with is blame.

People become homeless because of drugs/alcohol, or they didn't work hard enough in school, didn't work hard in their job, etc. It's their own fault, so homeless people deserve their miserable lives, end of discussion.

They despise the poor and hate the homeless. They don't want to help them. They just want them kept out of sight.

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Theriac Sep 4, 2023

@IrishCraftBeer @BrentToderian

It's entirely manufactured. At the time of the 2010 banking crisis there was a lot of anger aimed at the bankers by the general public in the UK. Then slowly the media emphasis shifts from bankers getting bonuses paid out from the bailout money they received from the government to the poor and the disabled being scroungers, leeching the tax payer's money.

The common factor in the UK and the US is Murdoch

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Séan Billings

@Theriac @BrentToderian That attitude is not new and is certainly not restricted to any one country. There are people indifferent to the suffering of others and openly hostile to anything that would improve the lives of poor people because they hate the notion of someone getting something they don't feel they deserve. Especially if it's taxpayer funded. Talk to any avowed conservative, in any country, about social welfare.

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Theriac Sep 4, 2023

@IrishCraftBeer @BrentToderian
Most conservatives tend to group along the venal, self serving axis of the politcal spectrum. But Murdoch is a cancerous propagandist.
Murdoch peddled his tawdry trade first in Australia, then in the UK, before arriving in the US. Very much like the way the UK honed the 5 Techniques over mutiple decades in multiple countries, he honed his own brand of Grima Wormtougism.

How much Murdoch is a part of post war US policies to counter communism that saw the extraction of left-leaning personnel and the re-instillation of Japanese pro old-regime in positions of power in Japan, where ex prime minsters can publicly state admiration for Hitler without fear, to the Stay Behind network of arms caches and "patriots" in Europe, to sponsoring Fascist terrorism in the 70s in Italy, to right-wing military juntas In Greece and around the world - I have no idea. However he co-incidentally aligns politically with that Great Project.