Families became crammed into apartments that had already been occupied by other families, and both eviction and trying to find a new place to live effectively became impossible. Some of this was by design in keeping with communist ideology: The ultimate vision was to have homes without kitchens so that everyone would eat communally in government-run cafeterias. True-believer communist architects designed buildings where everyone would have to share bathrooms as well, as part of an assault on bourgeois concepts such as shame, privacy and individualism.
