Why was there a housing shortage in the former soviet union?

The rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union encouraged the rural people to move to cities. This rural populations consist of more than 80 percent of the Soviet Union's population and it brings immense pressure on the government to provide for housing. housing was controlled and distributed by the municipal departments. There was a constant shortage of housing concerning the population in the Soviet Union.

what are the reasons

populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.