How Finland Slashed Homelessness by 40% (Bloomberg News 7/19/2019

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Steep Decline

Homelessness has plunged in Finland since data collection began

Source: The Housing Finance and Development Center ARA

(The results were obtained because Finland adopted Housing First on National Scale.) Content in parenthesis added by website editor.

"In the U.S., said Tsemberis, relatively scarce social spending has forced nonprofits to find innovative approaches, but limited their application. Elsewhere, these approaches to chronic homelessness are being applied on a national scale, based on the idea that housing is a human right.