“…Many Roma were resettled from rural areas to the “industrial belt” around major cities. Hastily constructed apartment buildings contained sections specifically for Romani families, effectively creating Roma ghettos at the periphery of “developing” Romanian cities (Barany, ; Crowe, ). Nevertheless, although Roma remained “at the bottom of virtually all socioeconomic indicators,” socialist policies that promoted full employment, along with the availability of “free education and healthcare, state assistance in housing and child‐rearing” did, in fact, result in some improvement in the living conditions of Romani people in Eastern Europe (Barany, , p. 421).…”