The homeless “hotel” in Sweden isn’t nearly as terrible as it sounds


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The distance between a positive, and awareness-raising scheme like this is unfortunately not too distant from some of the hipster hotels and fake trends we see to often in travel.

A magazine in Sweden is offering guests the chance to experience homelessness for a night. The "Faktum Hotel" in Gothenburg, which does away with beds, bathrooms - even a roof - and is instead letting guests choose to spend the night sleeping rough. It has selected ten places around the city where some of its 3,400 homeless people are