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d significantly, down 18%, since March has been the average price per square meter fell about 900 . Reduced prices for most of these migrants is also a good opportunity to buy a house According to Phillips .residential segregation is not socially problematic per se, but it has negative consequences when linked with deprivation. On the basis of our analysis, it seems that it is precisely these kinds of consequences, wealth of vulnerable ethnic minorities, That Helsinki officials have been most afraid of. Combating residential segregation of immigrants, namely refugees and other lowine immigrants, has therefore been highly emphasized, even if positive aspects of clustering are also acknowledged. Although, Helsinki’s mixing policies have been fairly explicit in their goal, they have not specified what level of concentration is too much, or how the ambitious goals of spatial dispersal should be carried out on a grassroot level. When policies lack clear instructions on practical implementation, much room is left for individual decisions and interpretation of housing . In such situations assumptions and reasoning behind the practices of council housing allocation bee particularly crucial. In Helsinki, decisions on council housing allocation are based on a casespecific reasoning. When vacancies appear, housing officials choose new residents on the basis of housing applicants’ own requests and the resident position of a building. If the building in question houses many immigrants already, and especially if there are several large families, officials try to direct prospective immigrant households into other buildings and choose another applicant instead. The logic behind the decisions is described well by two interviewees who refer to a notion of ‘‘mon sense’’: The government sector particularly of teachers, police and nurses in these lowine middle class families and some have applied for government subsidies of foreign workers. The ine of these families is often higher than the standard application for rental subsidies, but also on the free market economy can not afford the familytype housing. Most representative of the taka Surrey, nearly onethird of housing is social housing, the affordable rental housing by the city government and all