You sadly miss the larger picture here. Why would soviets suddenly have a housing crisis that required shit-quality housing? Why don't we have commie-blocks district in Amsterdam?

Worse circumstances were -- living in villages in their own houses, but that was against communist things. People had to live in public housing in a city and work in a factory, be mobile and be shuffled around whatever number of timezones and thousands of kilometers -- that was the whole point of ideology and was needed for industrialization too.

Life in a village sucked by design too.