A housing project for agricultural communities in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, has come to a halt because construction companies are unable to pay workers their wages, a source in the province told Daily NK earlier this month.<\/p>\n
At the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee last December, the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea presented guidelines \u201cfor the new construction of <\/span>socialist farming communities.\u201d <\/span>The new guidelines stressed the importance of building houses for agricultural communities nationwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Based on these guidelines, the central government said it would <\/span>provide cement for rural construction upfront and promised that the state would provide other essential <\/span>materials later on. Daily NK\u2019s source claimed, however, that regions nationwide have been left to build housing with their own resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The city of Hoeryong, for its part, dumped the housing construction project on local companies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n