Abstract
Slogans and reality The rate of housing construction has accelerated slightly in the four years that have elapsed since the Twenty-seventh CPSU Congress advanced the task of providing virtually every family with a separate apartment or an individual house by the year 2000. However, another slump was seen after the commissioning of housing peaked at 132.4 million square meters in 1988: new housing again declined in 1989. As regards the number of apartments, in 1987 it was only possible to repeat the level of average annual commissioning of 2.26 million in the Sixth Five-Year Plan. But then there was a twofold increase in the commissioning of apartments, whereas now their commissioning increased by only 13 percent compared with the preceding five-year plan. The number of dwellings under construction again declined starting in 1988. At the same time, the waiting list for housing continued to grow; 18 percent of the families have already been on this list for more than ten years. Thus there was no general imp...
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