It’s actually no one’s fault per se that useful land is more expensive. After 2008 there was a major lack of investment into housing that reared its ugly head around 2019. COVID amplified the existing problems making it harder to build and get materials, and created soaring inflation.

There are things we can do now such as change zoning and make permit times faster but it’s going to take a while even in a best case scenario to move the housing stock and commercial real estate supply to where it needs to be.

https://www.policysolutions.hu/userfiles/elemzes/309/regime_change_30_years_on_en_summary.pdf

The USSR was definitely communist. They called themselves communist, were inspired by communists and implemented communist policies.

These polls are really out of date. These numbers have since improved substantially in capitalism’s favour.