【正文】 urgent need for housing are given first priority. However, the principle is sometimes breached in order to prevent residential segregation. For instance, according to the housing policy memorandum for the years 2020–2020: On the other hand, attempts to generate social mixing do not override people’s own freedom to choose where they want to live. Since the mid1990s, council housing applicants have been able to specify the areas in which they wish to live, which means that council dwellings in other districts are not offered to them. In addition, applicants’ requests for certain facilities Immigrants’ housing issues were incorporated into existing mixing policies in Helsinki at the beginning of the 1990s. Residential segregation of immigrants was identified as a matter of concern by a working group that was set up to draft an immigrant policy proposal for the city council in 1991. Members of the working group listed housing as one of the basic munal services and suggested that preventing ethnic residential segregation was to be included as one of the objectives of the immigrant policy. According to their proposal: Helsinki housing prices relative to the ine of local people is very cheap. The general urban apartment prices per square meter in 2020 to 3000. Specifically stated, people used to calculate the total price of the housing area is the usable area of real hand, there is no floor area concept, nor will the corridor, elevator, all sharing space inside the property. Buyers are usually young people. The total area of the house naturally not large, small, more than forty square meters, large eighty or niy meters, many do not have balcony. For the outsider, this is not one to pay money they can not Although not expressed explicitly, it appears that residential segregation is thought to hinder immigrants’ integration into Finnish society and increase their risk of wealth. Potential segregation would also pose a challenge to the prevailing egalitarian ethos of a socially and spatially just society. Positive impacts of ethnic clustering, such as mutual support generated by living close to each other, are not considered in the 1991 policy proposal. However, it may well be that these kinds of positive aspects have influenced the working group’