Missing migrants, rising rents in Helsinki, and genderless clothes - Finland in the World Press

THIS WEEK IT WAS REVEALED that the scale of undocumented refugees and asylum seekers in Finland is much greater than anyone anticipated. Recent reports have shown that as many as half of the 30,000 asylum seekers that entered Finland at the height of the refugee crisis may have “slipped underground”, with authorities having little to no details on their whereabouts or wellbeing.

This has been attributed to Finland’s notoriously strict laws on seeking asylum and gaining legal residency in the country.

In other news, outlets such as the BBC and Huffington Post have praised Finland’s approach to solving homelessness, with the British city of Manchester trialling the same tactics to great success. It was also revealed that rents in Helsinki are so high that an average earner must make 4,650 USD a month to afford a single-person apartment, placing the city firmly above famously expensive cities like Dubai, Vienna, and Toronto in terms of living costs.

Hipster bible Broadly also travelled to Helsinki to review the “genderless clothing” department at Stockmann, while it has also been revealed that Finland was one of the only countries in Europe to not violate net neutrality laws.