In 1936 interwar Poland tried to address catastrophic situation with housing market by relaxing zoning law: If you could buy plot of land, you could build a hou

In 1936 interwar Poland tried to address catastrophic situation with housing market by relaxing zoning law: If you could buy plot of land, you could build a housing there. Result was few richest poles first race”ing to buy all the land around cities and then build on those plots apartment blocks for rich poles and foreigners to rent units at. It was post-war communist govt that started building cheap living blocks en masse in ruined cities. Today those neighborhoods have reputation for being some best places to live due to quality of urban planning: a lot of space between blocks and walking distance to services, schools and health care.