The GDR effectivel didn't have homelessness. Some places post reunification which followed those policies still have low rates and easy models did enable people to get housing comparatively easy.
Of course talk about this within the Left would mean to also talk about negative GDR aspects, like the "asocial" discourse which in parts was a continuity to feudal times and Nazi times. However if one does that lager and institutions ought to not be only discussed within the GDR but how they worked in that time period in the FRG, too. The latter institutions in which violence was common, in some of them virtually unrestricted and dealt out against people like: young women, single mothers, neurodivergent people, punks etc. The violence in children institutions I will not mention.
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The GDR effectivel didn't have homelessness. Some places post reunification which followed those policies still have low rates and easy models did enable people to get housing comparatively easy.
Of course talk about this within the Left would mean to also talk about negative GDR aspects, like the "asocial" discourse which in parts was a continuity to feudal times and Nazi times. However if one does that lager and institutions ought to not be only discussed within the GDR but how they worked in that time period in the FRG, too. The latter institutions in which violence was common, in some of them virtually unrestricted and dealt out against people like: young women, single mothers, neurodivergent people, punks etc. The violence in children institutions I will not mention.