cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lemmyshitpost/p/1009873/left-wing-architecture
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Dude that is such a lie though. They did fix homelessness.
Post-Soviet countries all still have the highest rates of homeownership in the world. That doesn’t happen with “fake statistics”.
They didn’t arrest you if you were homeless or unemployed. They found you a job.
They arrested you if you refused to work, yes. And that happened mostly around WW2, for obvious reasons. Similar things happened in the UK, Germany, France etc etc etc.
Also most people who used to live in the USSR say it took people months to find a house, not years. It was very bureaucratic yes, but not infinitely more than any large nation. Their main issue was ossification of the government.
And you definitely didn’t need a job to get a house. The USSR sponsored dozens of thousands of students from the third and second world to study in the USSR, with free housing, education, food etc etc.
People were heavily incentivized to study for as long as possible. Aka, not work.
Like bro the apartments were built to house people. How is “ending homelessness” not a part of that?
This view is ridiculous, that the USSR only ever did things for the people because they were secretly evil and actually just wanted to exploit people even harder than the capitalist countries that didn’t do anything for their people.
“Communists could never actually want to help people, they are shifty evil people full of guile!”
Like you say they built the apartments to house workers? Why did they invest so heavily in industry? How did that personally benefit the people in charge? Couldn’t it be that having productive industry is the most major part of having a prosperous society, which allows people to have good fulfilling lives?