• HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    If you break stuff in a rented apartment, you pay the bill. If you dont pay the bill; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distraint (the Sweden section seems to be quite similar to what happens here). If you start earning and paying taxes, you’ll have money taken straight from your paycheck and sent to the people you owe money to. There is some time limit to this, but its like 15 years or something.

    Things might have changed since I last checked this stuff, over 10 years ago.

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      15 hours ago

      How does that work when they’re a recently homeless mentally ill drug addict who causes damage in the tens of thousands of dollars? They don’t have a job etc.

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        14 hours ago

        Usually the renters have insurance for damage caused by a person unwilling to pay. Insurance companies pay up and then try to recuperate some of the costs from the person responsible for the damage.

        Drug addicts and mentally ill people are offered help and if they cant get or live in a normal rental apartments, there are sort of dormitory style places with nurses, guards and other staff 24h or 12h per day to keep things in check. They require the persons living there to check in at least once a day, they have a nurse signed up for them, usually have a session with the nurse once a week or so, a doctor checks up on them regularly as well. That’s the sort of last resort thing, if one doesn’t want to live in those places, then the government sees it as them choosing to be homeless. Nobody will be forced to get a apartment, nobody is forced to rent an apartment.

        And of course properly mentally ill people are usually kept in mental hospitals.