> Window cleaners would have a similar chance of getting an apartment as their boss. No they wouldn't. I lived in an european city with a socialist municipal g

> Window cleaners would have a similar chance of getting an apartment as their boss. No they wouldn't. I lived in an european city with a socialist municipal government who enforced social housing programs which, on the brochure, meant that window cleaners would have a similar chance of getting an apartment as their boss, and when the program was put to practice... Surprise, surprise: the apartments were distributed throught the party's ranks and through minions in the local and national media. In the end the municipality started dismantling the program due to the backlash and their solution was to sell the apartments to the current tenants at a firesale price (1/5th to 1/10th of the market value) which,again, led to some amusing anecdotes.