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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  6 months of the year, homeless people would freeze to death

  True, but that does surprisingly little to prevent homelessness.

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    True, but that does surprisingly little to prevent homelessness.

    Yes, but it does a LOT to keep people experiencing homelessness of the streets and in shelter. In US cities that have harsh winters, they also have many fewer homeless folks visible on the streets than you’d find in California or Texas, where people can pretty much live outside in perpetuity

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So you’re saying homeless people have, um, homes?

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  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Being in a shelter hardly qualifies as having a home. Unless you like shelters maybe…

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    • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you have a room in a shelter every day, you’re not homeless. It’s not nice, but it’s not homeless.

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      • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “not nice” is doing some competition level heavy lifting. Getting barely enough food, just that little bit of hygiene, all your things in one bag, surrounded by helpless or crazy people and desperation so great you are constantly paranoid you might get abused or robbed. All of the safety and security you want a home for is hardly available in a homeless shelter.

        It’s like saying being in prison is also living. Sure, on a technicality. But in real life no one would agree - prison makes people age faster for all the wrong reasons.

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      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If you don’t have a lease in your name, you’re homeless.

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      • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You should learn what a “home” is.

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• FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Same is true for much of Canada yet we can’t seem to shelter them either. It isn’t just the weather, the finnish government is far more compassionate towards homeless people than any other government I know of.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My immediate thought too. We have homeless people here in Norway too. Homeless does not mean without housing or shelter.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Finland winter ranges from 23F to -4F

  Similar to Northern US states.

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