Why should someone get to choose exactly where they want to live when they have nowhere to live currently? Not even the Soviet Union gave you that option. You were given an apartment, but you didn’t get to choose where it was, you got an apartment where there was one available and where your job was. In the case of the unemployed, you technically also got an apartment, but that was because you couldn’t legally be unemployed and were forced to work regardless.

So it’s not a ‘liberal’ thing to forcibly move people to where there’s housing, it’s actually a Communist thing.