Khrushchyovka

At the time these were originally being built, sufficient people in the UK were homeless to motivate a significant squatting movement to rise up and reclaim bomb-damaged homes, and the whole issue of working class housing in the UK continued as a festering sore through the sixties, seventies, eighties, the decline of social housing under Thatcher, to the present day where (ironies of ironies) Russian Millionaires, some of whom doubtless grew up in Krushchyovka, displace British working poor from affordable homes to dig mega-basements...

Anyway: I digress. The worse of these units are pretty torrid but the best of them, at the time built were probably better than many working people had in the west. Of course they were rapidly superceded by significantly worse and worse forms, and housing in the UK (the only one I know) got better, mostly.

Recent stories suggest the current owners and occupants are torn between realists who are going to get on, and some people who feel a sense of dislocation and fear being de-housed into significantly worse conditions in private housing for (somebody elses) profit.