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The only ones on the streets here are drug addicts, Roma people and asylum-seekers. I believe addicts are offered treatment, like a stay at a rehabilitation center and/or drugs like Methadone and Subutex. They are also offered free housing, etc. The latter group are offered various government support.
In France there are a lot of mentally ill people in the streets, however some of them only during daytime, at night they go back to dedicated shelters dubbed "hopital de jour". And of course as in Norway a lot of alcoholics, drug addicts, asylum seekers, and young beggars with German shepherds and "Iroquois" hairdressing. And I forgot the professional bums with their cardboard "houses". Needless to say the whole scene is unhygienic, violent , and unpleasant. And it's public policy to "let them be" and do nothing about that situation because "it would infrige on their freedom"-the "freedom" to die slowly on a sidewalk or be a threat to others..... (there are thousands of homeless people in French big cities).
I see very few here, in the citys their are some mostly with mental health issues coupled with some drug or alcohol issues. Pretty much anyone capable of going to an office and filling out some papers will get some housing and assistance. A few either can´t or wont, and those who can´t will often get "found" by some social worker and put in some housing situation. I do know of a small homeless camp here under a bridge by the train station, I think many of them pretty much choose to be homeless.
Lot´s of the street people you see around the train station or park, junkies, drunks and beggars... have housing.
Now and then you will find someone living out of one of the little huts which are along the hiking trails, where I go climbing there seems to be a semi permanent guy with an old guitar and all his stuff on his bike who turns up in the evening at a hut along the trail- maybe next time I go I will bring a bottle of wine and some extra food and see if he will tell me his story for a bit of wine, he seems kind of interesting.
I rarely see homeless people in Bucharest, perhaps because they are rapidly collected by police and sent to some social homes.
Mentally ill people are known to be badly treated, abused by personel, kept in misery. Usually in Transylvania mental asylums are hosted in historical castles, which for this reason are not visitable. Even some of the most precious and beautiful castles have such destination.
Just a couple of hours ago I saw four homeless, two were Spanish and two Romanians.
Why do I know that they were Romanian? Because they belong to a Romanian Corporation that drops them in strategic places as beggars and picks them up later.
And how do you know they dont have home? They dress poorly to induce compassion but I doubt that that corporation picked them from streets and then left them again on streets. It doesn't make sense. Usually is a organized crime group that brings children from Romania and put them to beg, but over night they house them somehow.
And why doesn't the police take care of this phenomenon?
The only ones on the streets here are drug addicts, Roma people and asylum-seekers. I believe addicts are offered treatment, like a stay at a rehabilitation center and/or drugs like Methadone and Subutex. They are also offered free housing, etc. The latter group are offered various government support.
They get homes in Finland
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