🔧 Step 1: Understand DPRK Housing Numbers

📌 Data:


  • 80,700 homes built in 1,500 rural villages.
  • 20,000 more rural homes currently under construction.
  • Total = 100,700 rural homes built or being built.


🇰🇵 DPRK Population (Estimate):


  • ~25 million people

We’ll assume:

  • These homes are for rural areas only (not urban high-rises).
  • These are single-family or small-unit homes, likely modest, i.e., working-class style.


🧮 DPRK per capita housing construction:


100,700 homes / 25,000,000 people1 home per 248 people


🔧 Step 2: Compare with USA (Working-Class Focus)

🇺🇸 U.S. Population:


  • ~336 million (2025 est.)


🏗️ U.S. Annual Housing Construction:


According to U.S. Census data:

  • 2023: ~1.45 million new housing units were started.
    • About 65–70% are single-family homes, the rest are multi-family.
    • A significant share are high-end homes or investment properties, not working-class housing.



🎯 Filter: Working-Class Style Homes


Assumptions:

  • Assume 50% of new homes are working-class homes.
    • (Removes many luxury homes, vacation homes, and speculative units.)


50% of 1.45 million = 725,000 working-class homes annually

🧮 U.S. per capita housing construction (working class):


725,000 homes / 336,000,000 people1 home per 463 people


⚖️ Side-by-Side Comparison (Working-Class Homes Only)

MetricDPRKUSA
Population25 million336 million
Working-class homes (recent project)100,700 (est.)725,000 (annual est.)
Per capita rate1 per 248 people1 per 463 people
Type of homesRural, modestMixed, filtered for WC
Scope1–2 years projectAnnual basis

🧠 Insight


  • On a per capita basis, the DPRK is currently building nearly twice as many working-class homes as the U.S. — 1 per 248 people vs. 1 per 463.
  • DPRK's campaign is state-directed, rural-focused, and ideological, aligning with their "Rural Revolution".
  • The U.S. system is market-driven, uneven, and often skewed toward urban and suburban developments, with working-class housing increasingly squeezed by:
    • Zoning laws
    • Rising material and labor costs
    • NIMBYism
    • Profit motive favoring luxury construction



🏁 Conclusion


The DPRK — despite sanctions, isolation, and limited resources — is currently outperforming the U.S. in building working-class homes per capita during this rural housing campaign.

The U.S., with a far larger economy, could do much better, but market distortions, speculation, and class dynamics reduce the actual rate of affordable housing production.


Let me know if you'd like this broken down by region (e.g., U.S. rural vs urban), or if you'd like a comparison over a decade.

in reply to Nanook

@nanook Nigga shut the fuck up. We have had a deficit of homes in the USA at least since 2008. That the DPRK is beating us in building homes is a fucking embarrassment. That I am putting attention to this isn't something to tell me to leave for. I'm literally advocating for the USA to try harder in treating its citizens with respect by building more homes, while getting shit on by citizens like you who are blind and retarded "patriots". No idea if you are American but if you are, you are a fucking retard. Happy 4th you faggot.