Helsinki’s solution to homelessness

That, after all, is all part of having a home – and part of a housing policy that has now made Finland the only EU country where homelessness is falling. But if Housing First is working in Helsinki, where half the country’s homeless people live, it is also because it is part of a much broader housing policy. It has invested heavily, too, in homelessness prevention, setting up special teams to advise and help tenants in danger of losing their homes and halving the number of evictions from city-owned and social housing from 2008 to 2016.

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