When the city government wants to install anti-homeless benches, but doesn’t want the backlash from installing anti-homeless benches.
Through an innovative public policy strategy that has virtually eliminated homelessness within its borders
This is probably the least dickish way to go about it.
I think your instant assumption about it being done for evil says more about the country you live than it does about Finland, because homelessness doesn’t seem to be a big issue in Finland. That’s ~5k homeless people in a country with ~5 million people, that’s ~0.1% of the population being homeless.
0.1% is big. I want to see 0%.
The US is roughly the same percentage and it was definitely a comment from a US political frame. In the US they are simply more visible as they congregate in cities.
As opposed to here where they congregate to mountaintops?
Certain demographics do not congregate everywhere. Farmers do not congregate in cities.
But we are talking about US and Finnish homeless who do
Also 70% of those homeless people are living with friends or relatives
We don’t have homeless people on finland. Or we do but quite minimally, the numbers are in couple thousand if I recall right
It’s around 4,400. It bears mentioning that the population of Finland is only around 4.5 million. The Dallas Fort Worth Metro area has a population of about 6.5 million and a homeless population of around 4,500
It bears mentioning that the population of Finland is only around 4.5 million.
Lmao you might want to check your numbers
Sorry you’re right. It’s more like 5.5 million. My point stands
One person benches
Chair. That’s a chair
“one person benches” you mean chairs?
It’s clearly a one person bus without wheels
or anti homeless space
My first thought. You could put up three 2 person benches there without too much trouble. It’d still look fine with spaces between so people can sit alone.
Those are chairs
I can see the appeal of this in some ways, but I hope there are also two-person benches in the same area because when I’m, for example, out with my daughter and we both want to sit down for a minute, it’s nice not to have to yell to talk to each other.
Or spread your arms if you are alone
Probably a shit-ton if the seats on the plane are spaced out the same way
Apparently they’re being made by Sineu Graff from Denmark and this is somewhere in Helsinki, but I heard that those aren’t too common in Finland, so hold your horses, you isolationists ;)
Why does this make me sad? I ironically do actually prefer seating alone but something about this doesn’t feel right
That one person who still comes up to you and asks if they can sit next to you
Now do saunas
Coffin full of hot rocks
where put bag tho?
Sometimes it’s really better to have your own bench.
Ain’t Finland a paradise?
Not getting sunlight for months in a row tends to make people depressed.
*to make people look depressed
Oh hell no
About €180 from AMS to HEL
but would you have to sit next to someone on the plane
Almost certainly.
