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		Konnstann on June 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helsinki's solution to homelessness The savings are there, the article even talks about it. I think the socialist extreme is the government owning 70% of the housing in the city. Not that it's a bad extreme, it sounds like it works fine, but out of the ordinary.

gnode on June 3, 2019 [–]

> the government owning 70% of the housing in the city.

I'd argue that this is actually state capitalism, rather than socialism.

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