# Homeless encampments

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-encampments/965527>\
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**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-encampments/965527 "2022-06-01T22:07:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-encampments/965527/92 "2022-06-12T09:03:46Z")

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> [@SmartAleq](#):
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> At this rate they could blow through the entire 255 million and still only have beds for six hundred of the approximately 5200 unhoused people in Portland.

Look at what Finland did with the similar amount of 270 million euros:

> **[Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me](https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/)**
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> In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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