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Improvement of agricultural efficiency reduces work in rural areas and prompts internal migration from rural areas to cities, much like occurred throughout the west. Expanding cities as rural areas become less labour intensive due automation and mechanisation is a given. This doesn’t mean people didn’t have houses before, but that the houses were not longer in the correct locations for the labour due to the changes.
Does North-Korea have a homeless crisis? More fuel imports from Russia might accelerate/fuel construction in North-Korea.
No, there is no homelessness crisis in North Korea.
Improvement of agricultural efficiency reduces work in rural areas and prompts internal migration from rural areas to cities, much like occurred throughout the west. Expanding cities as rural areas become less labour intensive due automation and mechanisation is a given. This doesn’t mean people didn’t have houses before, but that the houses were not longer in the correct locations for the labour due to the changes.
Aside from what other people said, they are also modernizing the housing, so people who lived in houses built decades ago are now in modern homes.