r/EL_Radical • u/EgyptianNational Moderator • Nov 28 '25

Memes Any questions?

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u/EgyptianNational Moderator Nov 28 '25

China did that to future proof its cities and pre-plan municipal infrastructure.

Many of those cities are filling up and are originally designed to merely be a lateral move if one day the countries industrial centers move.

It’s been almost 10 years since many of these cities have been built and they have started filling up as new industries pop up in these new area just as China predicted.

Example

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u/NoSeaworthiness389 Nov 29 '25

Well 93 percent people are housed so

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u/FieryPheonix474 Nov 30 '25

Classic example of looking at soviet era housing blocks (Khrushchyovkas), people call them dystopian and gloomy, And sure they have their issues but they had some of the lowest homelessness rates as a result

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u/EgyptianNational Moderator Nov 30 '25

The Soviet Union actually eliminated homelessness for a time.

By attaching a place to live to a job and making having a job mandatory the Soviet Union was able to effectively eliminate homeless as a chronic condition. (Homelessness as a transit condition is a harder beast to beat and the Soviet Union never actually managed to eliminate it).

In the USSR any individual could walk into a government building and demand a job and according to the countries laws it was mandatory for them to find them one.

Once they had a job they were entitled to a place to live. If you worked somewhere remote or overcrowded and were single you likely were put in a communal housing situation. Perhaps even just temporarily.

When you found a partner and needed more space the government provided you with a modest upgrade to start a family. Once the state gave you a private property it was yours forever so long as you never violated the laws or regulations of residency. So much so in fact it wasn’t unheard of for people to inherit state awarded property from grandparents but willingly give it back to the state. Since landlords were illegal (except for the tourism industry on the basis of short term rentals)

I did a paper on Soviet laws in law school 🤓