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I lived in a country where housing (at the time) was provided by the government. It's not as great as it might sound. Want to move? Do the paper work and wait for a few years. Want a bigger place? too bad. Not to mention single room for the whole family, shared kitchen and washrooms.

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The quality of the housing is going to be proportional to the wealth of the country per capita. In the US, we simply allocate quality of housing based on ability to pay, so many people have incredibly bad housing conditions.

It doesn’t take very many years of communism to reduce the wealth of the country per capita until everyone has equally bad housing conditions.

Great point, we should continue to make people sleep on the street

Right, of course the only choices we have are government provides housing or everyone sleeps on the street. Not like we have any examples of any other system.

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