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    1 year ago

    I’m on mobile and can’t read German, I’ll have to wait until later to run those articles through a translator to see what they’re getting at.

    But I do wonder about you saying we can only halve homelessness instantly, and the next quarter needs some help, and the next 10% needs a lot of help and after that things get more diffocult: that means it doesn’t work and isn’t worth trying at all

    Wouldn’t halving homelessness be pretty damn successful?

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      1 year ago

      Of course it is great but it won’t solve homelessness. Which is what the image suggests. And obviously it doesn’t.

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        1 year ago

        What’s your tolerance threshold for a solution? One source I quoted elsewhere said it would solve up to 75% of homelessness.

        People are allergic or immune to penicillin, that doesn’t mean that its not a solution to bacterial infections.

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          If someone said “Penicillin solves bacterial infections” I would also say this is not true. There are bacterial infections which can’t be cured by penicillin and some people can’t take it at all.

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            Understood. How should one phrase a vast majority success with a tolerance of a minority of failures in casual conversations?

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              I am not sure a vast majority success is correct if people interpret the concept literally (like in the meme).

              Finland is the country with the best results, afaik.

              These are the numbers of those homeless who are accounted for and got help (so missing those who are not in welfare for example and therefore the numbers are estimates): https://www.ara.fi/en-US/Materials/Homelessness_reports/Homelessness_in_Finland_2022(65349)#:~:text=At the end of 2022,a decrease of 185 people.

              They started the housing first approach in 2007. There is a steady decline in homelessness, so I would say it’s an important part of the new solution.

              But if you look at the organisations which allocate the housing you see they also hired hundreds of extra personal, invested heavily in the help networks, anti-drug abuse and other programs.

              Many of the housing complexes have staff on site or they visit the scattered apartments.

              And Finland invested additionally into prevention methods to counter people getting homeless in the first place. They changed laws and built teams and places to help people not get homeless.

              What do you call it than? It just seems wrong in the way it was put in the meme.