Not sure why or from where this quote comes from. In germany and poland we have many such apartment houses that are very affordable
The presence of picture 1 in no way prevents the presence of picture 2.
As someone who lives in a former communist country, I can tell you that “commie blocks” most definitely don't fix homelessness.
As someone who's from a former Communist country, the downfall of communism was met with a dramatic rise in homelessness.
But you probably shouldn't trust a random person on lemmy saying "as someone from Communist country", this info easily verifiable with a web search.
Here's the first link I get searching "homelessness after communism":
https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca29.1.03/277
What are you talking about dude? Those are homes with doors, locks, heat, and a bed. Compared to a tent?
Aren’t these basically the same picture? Like the second photo has a literal apartment building on the right of the background
No. The only bigger problem I have with the first image is permanence; the situation in the second picture is easier to clean up.
To be fair new social housing looks like this:
Not enough trees and first batch was mostly single-room(as in one bedroom, one kitchen, one toilet and one bathroom in appartment), but better than humant colony.
I really like russian appartement complexs, there is always green surrounding the buildings...I hate russia though
I'm from eastern Europe and those green spaces are usually not very well managed. And they also end up looking kinda sad when you live there.
Rusty playgrounds, plants not managed and growing all over the place in a not very aesthetically pleasing way, completely destroyed or very quickly patched up walkways.
I do think it's still better than the American suburbs, but it could be so so much better if cities invested more into making these areas enjoyable to be in.
