>finally accumulate enough 'tism for a new WRSR playthrough
>modded 1930 unpopulated start with everything on hard doesn't sound hard enough
>restrict myself by building a starter town with shitty wooden shacks, only basic infrastructure, below a thousand immigrant invitations
>also try to do noloans but end up borrowing 150k after tanking my economy by relying on expensive diesel generators for power and losing several hundred lives during winter (apparently you still need heating even with self-heating houses)
>soon realize that I won't even be able to start a proper city before all my university-educated citizens die out
>concede by building a nominally segregated district with a small uni and some proper commieblocks for my educated comrades to live in
>education numbers finally start slowly but steadily going up
>population is close to 1.5k now and a small heating plant no longer reliably cuts it during the harshest siberian winters
>whenever temperature dips, it's my best and brightest who die out while the lumpenproles burn dung in their hovels with no fucks to give

There's probably a joke about gommunism in here somewhere. Anyway, is there a way to batch-select living preferences for a group of buildings? I can't be assed to click every barrack to prohibit the educated from living there, but moving them manually is getting tedious. Also, is there no way to copy worker assignments between houses same way one would copy assignments between COs or DOs? And why in the fuck are my unemployed citizens displayed as "inactive", is it because they live in self-heating houses that are normally only found on game start?