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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Those were not built for homeless people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No duh, they were built to be very affordable so you wouldn't have as many homeless people. It's incredible that you thought that answer was somehow insightful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were built to be affordable for working class and had nothing to do with homelesness.. Communists/socialists did not acknowledge existence of homelessness because it would mean party admitting of making a mistake or system being flawed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Affordable and available housing has everything to do with homelessness though, it's one of the best ways to actually keep people from becoming homeless in the first place. If more people can afford a place to live, less people will be homeless. Won't fix all of it but a huge chunk anyhow

I have no idea if or how much old Eastern Bloc countries lied about the number of homeless. I wouldn't be surprised at all, but I haven't seen any studies or statistics about this so I can't assume they were all lying or that the situation was universally worse than in Western countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But that was no goal of communist party at all. It is only your justification for this meme and proving your point about current capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet they still would affect the rate of homelessness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

So they affect shit volume produced on a toilet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They were built for the Prolitariat, which homeless folks are quite literally a part of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is some good mental gymnastics there…