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Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand has suggested that the solution to the crisis may be a Finnish model, which is a 'housing first' approach that aims to give everyone a home.

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

I live in Chicago, one of the locations that many migrants are being shipped to, but even here the city refuses to build additional housing, or even use it's Department of Housing to fund the refurbishing of it's hundreds of units of dilapidated housing. Ultimately if the solution doesn't enrich someone with money, it isn't something that will ever happen in most of the world.