🔧 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 people ≈ 1 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 people ≈ 1 home per 463 people
⚖️ Side-by-Side Comparison (Working-Class Homes Only)
| Metric | DPRK | USA |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 25 million | 336 million |
| Working-class homes (recent project) | 100,700 (est.) | 725,000 (annual est.) |
| Per capita rate | 1 per 248 people | 1 per 463 people |
| Type of homes | Rural, modest | Mixed, filtered for WC |
| Scope | 1–2 years project | Annual 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.
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