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Sure it is. You have to have government fund it, like a normal social democracy would do.
Any examples?
Sweden had the Million Programme back in ~1960, which produced a significant amount of the housing people live in to this day. Just shitloads of commie blocks (and houses, actually) because they recognized that people needed a place to live.
You can find apartments in these buildings for $200 per month, they'll be tiny but they're fine. $600 is pretty standard and gets you something i'd almost consider luxurious for a single person.
And these days there's still a lot of subsidies going into housing, plus the fact that a lot of the apartment buildings are commissioned by municipal housing companies (i.e. owned by the municipality, and not operated for profit) or by what are effectively housing co-ops.
Look at riksbyggen for example, they're kind of the bread and butter housing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksbyggen