I actually wish they’d build more of those than the overpriced “luxury condos” people build now that no one can afford.

Who could've guessed, low-cost housing doesn't look fancy!

Funny enough, despite the ugly aesthetics, there is a great sense of community in social housing.

Those blocks might be not perfect, but they were part of a program to build housing for all those people living in quite bad conditions after the war and after everything that went through in eastern europe in the 20th century. They needed millions of homes and quick. And they might be ugly to some people, but they are better than slums and you shouldn't take their condition today after several decades for what they were when they were new.

Just a reminder that the underlying problems that lead to this kind of architecture aren't explicitly left-wing. When you were born all the land already belonged to someone else. These might be private properties, corporate owned properties or state owned properties. If you weren't lucky enough to inherit something from your parents you are forced to live in these boxes. This problem gets worse over time. Lack of opportunities to earn enough money to buy a plot/house, paired with a lack of space in cities also contributed to the situation. It's shit everywhere because we as humans have continuously failed to implement better solutions.

lists one way of doing a thing "This is the only way of doing that thing!!"

American suburbia.

Ahh yes, the famous left wing authoritarian centric planning government Soviet Russia

in soviet russia, apartments block you

https://i.redd.it/vykv4tij5yie1.jpeg

Thank god the right wing blesses us with their beautiful architecture like:

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Left wing? LOL. This is a Soviet Block. They are everywhere in the old USSR.

They're all made of concrete which means I don't have to hear my upstairs neighbor stomping around at every hour of the day

"Dumb commies, they think this is better than owning your own houses and renting them out so they don't have to work? Savages, let them live in cardboard boxes." / the bourgeoisie

Related:

https://youtu.be/ZtFCpusLvxQ

People here understand that the Soviet Union had a homeless population too, right? They actually had a higher rate than the US in the 1980s.

Why is this right wing or left wing housing?

I guess you can maybe make an argument that this is centralized planning, trying to make the best use of the land available and that right-wing would be pure chaos where the market decides what's going on. On so you'd have sprawl next to Mansions next to slums, next to McDonald's, and no parks, and every single tiny piece of land has a building on it, and it all must be fully utilized trying make money in some capitalism way?

Honestly, it doesn't seem the worst way to do it from a housing density standpoint. Yes, we all want the standalone suburb house or some spot in the countryside, but that's not the world we live in. For high density housing, this doesn't seem that bad. Each building has a balcony and overlooks a park and has fresh air and sunshine.... How do you do this better?

or is it about equality? Every unit here is equal and therefore bad? That seems a positive in my eyes. Is that really the difference here? There aren't the ultra poor and the mega rich all mixed in together... Where the poor are in slums and the Richer mansions, is that right wing architecture?

What's the best way to build high density housing? Tall buildings surrounded by Parks seems to be the most optimal way, right? What am I missing here? The buildings aren't pretty enough?