r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 10d ago

Where are the homeless supposed to go?

Cities have been cracking down on homeless people so they can’t have encampments or stay on sidewalks. At the same time usually the shelters are full. So those who are unable to get into a shelter, where are they supposed to go?

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u/FAITH2016 8d ago

Finland is also way smaller than the USA. We are talking about a totally different scale here, not that’s not a good idea.

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u/Professional-Tax-615 Down with Gambling ads 8d ago

Exactly. Does Finland have a population of 350 million? I don't think so.. the culture is also different and nobody ever considers that either. Having a strong education system and placing value on intelligence definitely matters.

In the US we place value on superficial nonsense that doesn't help society at all such as the number of followers a person has, or how attractive a person is, or how much money someone really has.

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u/ExcitingAd5703 7d ago

Finland has ~6 million residents. NYC has around 8m and LA has around 5million. You don’t think we could import some working programs to similar sized US cities? That seems defeatist. We could also collectively place more value on education. We need to do something about it but we can. We just don’t. We make excuse why what works there couldn’t possibly work in America

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u/i_woke_up_as_you 6d ago

there is a definite greed factor in the way our education system operates. I’ve seen much more affordable education elsewhere

But then I’m somebody who looks at the offerings of not for profit universities , to show people how to graduate without being in debt