How Finland Fixed Homelessness While the US Fails: Home vs. Shelter (Video)
This is a 12 October 2025 pubished video. Meet the American idealists inspired by Finland’s model to end homelessness.
It all started when they noticed something odd from a conventional US perspective: a European country had managed to tackle homelessness, even the most difficult cases.
How come? The answer was simple enough: get people into homes, and do a follow-up so they can treat problems like chronic drug addiction and mental illness. It’s been working for years, and it’s not more expensive, on the contrary.
How did they reverse the situation in Finland? First, they stopped asking how to manage homelessness —and started asking how to end it. Their answer was simple, but radical: get people in homes, not shelters.
Part 3 of our series on homelessness takes us from California to Finland, comparing America’s housing crisis with one of the world’s most successful models.
In Helsinki, homelessness has nearly disappeared. The city promises housing to all — not temporary shelter — and we tour one of its largest permanent housing communities to see how this approach works in practice.
https://youtu.be/RwZQ8GCHgRg
TIMELINE:
- 0:11 Helsinki, Finland: The model that ended homelessness;
- 19:33 San Francisco Bay Area: Where housing dreams go to die;
- 20:16 Berkeley, California: An accidental life on wheels;
- 22:47 Berkeley, California: Renting after being on the street;
- 39:18 Berkeley, California: Still on the street;
- 42:31 Phoenix, Arizona: Testing a rapid response system (to fight a homelessness surge);
- 42:50 Phoenix, Arizona: Solving the situation at The Zone (homeless encampment);
- 43:42 Phoenix, Arizona: St. Vincent of Paul off-grid X-Wing (dormitory style living, rapid deployment).
Back in Berkeley, we meet our longtime friend and micro-unit developer Patrick Kennedy, who is experimenting with a modern take on the old residence hotels — compact, affordable units designed to bring back a form of housing that once helped city dwellers stay off the streets.
In Phoenix, we visit a rapid-response project using shipping containers arranged in an X-wing shape, capable of being installed in parking lots in just six hours to provide fast, temporary housing for those in need.
Can America learn from Finland’s success — and from its own innovators — to finally make housing, not shelter, the foundation of its response to homelessness?
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@SBoone – Your argument of FINLAND’s stoppage of homelessness versus AMERICA’s stoppage of homelessness are INCOMPARABLE problems.
1. WHITE SEMITE FINLAND is not a large nation-state that NON HUMANS (Genesis 6:1-3; John 8) TARGET to TRAFFICK light brown JAPHETHITES, and BLACK and DARK BROWN HAMITES – all are known WORSHIPERS of the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN. Also, SEMITE FINLAND provided space for a tiny percentage of HAMITES (dark brown and black HAMITE Muslims) and they were corralled far from WHITE SEMITES.
2. FINLAND’s newly-adopted MUSLIM state was MONEY MANAGED for political ends. Over time, Muslims will get the boot!
3. AMERICA has been the target nation by NON HUMANS (Genesis 6:1-3; John 8) to thieve humans from throughout the world and dump them on the shores of America from 1777 to 2025 that is ongoing. AMERICA IS A “PRIVATE PROPERTY” NATION-STATE SINCE 1776. America is a WHITE SEMITE JUDAH ENGLISH AMERICAN nation-state that PROHIBITS ALL OTHER HUMANS FROM ENTERING AMERICA EXCEPT WHITE SEMITE FAMILIES FROM EUROPE BY VOTE and INVITATION ONLY!
@SBoone — / CONTINUED ….
4. AMERICA’s population is now TWO-THIRDS LIGHT-BROWN JAPHETHITES and BLACK and DARK BROWN HAMITES by TRAFFICKING, whereas ONE-THIRD of WHITE SEMITE AMERICANS are the progeny of the SEMITE FAMILY / TRIBE of Judah / CLAN of English / CHILDREN of English Americans. They BOUGHT and TRADED with DARK BROWN HAMITES [ignorantly name American INDIANS]. ENGLISH founded the American REPUBLIC “by and for” WHITE SEMITES. The DARK BROWN HAMITES are lawfully allowed to “roam” America by SEMITE agreement of 1549 that TRAFFICKED JAPHETHITES and BLACK HAMITES forced onto non-agricultural lands and where no animals survive.
5. SEMITE AMERICANS have provided APARTMENTS, CONDOMINIUMS, HIGH-RISES, DUPLEXES, HOUSES and etcetera to BROWN AND BLACK “INVADERS” BUT THEY “DESTROY” the shelters, appliances, floors, walls, plumbing, and burn down buildings. WHY? To move into newer more luxurious housing. SEMITE AMERICA cannot fix humans’ inability to THINK because the MISFIT MUSLIM INVADERS are INBRED half-breeds (blood type-B-O-Rh) [Rh abbreviates Rhesus monkey blood strain] … imbecile, idiot, moron intelligences – they ARE NOT educable! Therefore, America’s TRAFFICKED INVADERS can certainly be sent to FINLAND.
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6. Take up another line of work, SBOONE; you are in the wrong business. Educated people like me, spot and call-out FRAUDS. IF MULTI-CULTURALISM or more appropriately stated, a “CULTURELESS” society is so great and wonderful, why are you not living among the TRASH? YOUR task SHOULD BE to USHER NON-EDUCABLE humans back onto ships to return them to their lands where Father JESUS placed them (Genesis 10), and commanded, “STAY WITH YOUR OWN KIND, DO NOT BLEND YOUR BLOODS.” Are you awake, yet, SBOONE?! Any humans you lead away from where Father JESUS placed humans (Genesis 10) shall become admissive evidence on YOUR Day of Judgment at End of Time. Of course, IF you are a NON HUMAN (Genesis 6:1-3; John 8; blood type-Rhesus monkey blood strain), NO ONE WILL COME TO YOUR RESCUE YOU! Whe – eee!