Using the case of the Municipality of Ljubljana Vič - Rudnik, the paper presents and analyses a segment of the daily life in socialism that was related to individual and public housing construction. The authoress describes a variety of strategies that both individual citizens and the municipality employed in pursuing their set goals. Socialism is often associated with good opportunities for building houses or other types of infrastructure. During the 1970s, the period at the focus of this paper, construction activities were especially vibrant. This was also a result of the rising living standard. Even though people tend to remember the building of their houses, flats, kindergartens, schools, roads, waterworks and other infrastructure with nostalgia, the data shed light on the sluggishness of construction, which was financed by collecting various funds and often brought to completion through voluntary work.