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How Finland Solved Homelessness
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How Finland Solved Homelessness

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Helsinki is the only European capital where homelessness is falling, and this film goes looking for the policy behind that statistic. Finland's Housing First approach gives people permanent apartments with no sobriety or treatment requirements attached, reversing the usual shelter-system order where housing is the reward for getting clean. The film visits Helsinki's housing units and hears from residents whose faces and stories carry the weight of years on the street, alongside the social workers and officials who built and now run the program. It traces how Finland dismantled its old shelter network and converted it into permanent housing stock, and what that cost against what emergency shelters and hospital visits used to cost. The tone stays practical rather than sentimental, treating homelessness as a housing problem with a housing solution rather than a moral failing to be managed. By the end, Finland's numbers stand as the argument: a country that decided to just give people homes first, and then watched the problem shrink instead of persisting.