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Even if we had commie blocks in the US, believing they would ever be affordable is pure fantasy. The corpofascists would just collude with each other and price fix things so that they'd cost the $3k/month that current lowest-tier shithole apartments cost and then everything else would get a major price hike.
I mean the US has much less soulless housing, and we have enough housing for everyone. The issue is we have a society that doesn't care to house the homeless.
The issues with the brutalist blocs built in Eastern Europe is usually more about the soulessness and drearineess of the architecture.
What's a house go for now in Sanfrancisco?
Given 2/3 of it is zoned for single family homes I'd assume its still not cheap.
People on the streets is far more soulless than gray concrete housing. Especially because concrete can at least be painted over to make it look better.
I think you misunderstood my point. That concrete block design came about due to a push for efficency and quickly rebuilding post WWII. So it was either house more people quickly or nice looking houses.
The US hasn't really ever had to make that decision. We have enough houses as is for the homeless. The design of our homes/apartment buildings is not our limiting factor, it's our policies and approach to housing and the homeless.
But look how colorful the tents are!
I mean, the people shitting on "commie blocks" usually don't mind that homeless people are barely considered human by the law... so they'd probably be on board with the idea of sending the police to slash all these tents
no pedos in my memes pls
Kinda works for representing evil, repulsive people though.
The commie blocks also had smart city planning, like you had a supermarket and everything else in walking range, and no through traffic. I do think they could be designed and build a bit nicer with modern technology. Especially higher ceilings and thicker walls. And then put those blocks out into nature or agricultural land and connect them via high speed rail or a self driving shuttle bus.
No city folks want to live in agri land due to smell and sounds from agri works. I do agree with more green areas. Stockholm gets a lot of flak for its miljonprojekt but there are quite a lot of trees and green areas within walking distance from most places
I suspect most city folk live in the city to find work. So if more people could work online, or wouldn't have to work at all (less consumerism, wealth redistribution, basic income) then I suspect most would want to live close to nature but still luxuriously. So the ideal I can imagine would be a luxury apartment block surrounded by fields and forest (now pig manure though since we need to stop industrial meat production anyway)
Affordable housing doesnt need to be expensive. You can have pretty nice midrises for very cheap. Design like 20 different models, all of em in 5 different colours, thats 100 different styles of apartment buildings and you just dont put two of the same next to eachother and problem solved. Mass produced, colourful, nice, cheap, housing.
