helsinki and home less ness

27 min doc on homelessness in helsinki via mark harvoth and this tweet [https://x.com/tweetoutreach/status/1738939076542124479?s=20]:

Look at how scaling housing first (aka human being first) has solved homelessness in Finland.

We just dropped our documentary on Finland’s Housing First model. https://youtu.be/0jt_6PBnCJE?si=IZhzqjT2DPY1ZmPr… This special episode provides the most genuine and comprehensive look into Housing First that has ever been captured on video.

notes/quotes from video:

6 min – earlier it was like you had to earn to get a house.. rehabilitate et al.. but the finnish people let one important truth guide their policy.. impossible to rehabilitate from streets.. person needs a home so other stuff can happen after that.. t

oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space

12 min – it is in interest of everyone to reduce homeless ness

13 min – we are small country.. you are big country.. more money/resources so you can if you want.. we learned housing first from us

14 min – if you don’t care about people/humanity.. people always care about money.. it’s cheaper

16 min – messy apts is better than streets.. if messy room have messy mind..

17 min – you can never get so low that we will not be beside you.. more than housing first.. we don’t leave a person alone w/apt.. ie: recording studios, gyms, gardens.. etc

18 min- housing first is not housing only..

19 min – she had to be intoxicated to cope..

hari present in society law et al.. maté addiction law

21 min – we treat people as human beings and not homeless .. when you are homeless feels like you are not part of society anymore.. like an outcast..

26 min – mark: we can’t even get affordable health care for everybody.. how are we going to change culture so we can have affordable housing for everybody .. we know how to end homelessness and we’ve known for a long time.. housing first.. implemented at scale can solve homelessness.. t

bachelard oikos law.. the scale we need.. infinitesimal structures approaching the limit of structureless\ness and/or vice versa .. aka: ginorm/small ness.. spaces of permission with nothing to prove

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