The housing policy under Kim Jong-un’s regime is characterized as a political project to stabilize and strengthen the personal dictatorship, due to the following three reasons. First, the housing allocation system composed of three special allocation modes (SAMs) and one general allocation mode (GAM) is arranged hierarchically according to the relative degree of political allegiance and functional necessity for the regime. SAMs serve to enhance the security of the regime. GAMs play roles as a social security apparatus. Second, public housing construction projects in themselves are utilized as ‘political works’ to strengthen the social cohesion of the cadres-masses relations and enhance the cadres’ allegiance to the regime. Third, the regime uses the double strategy to control the unofficial housing market (IHM), The regime connives at the illegality of the private housing construction (PHC) in order to increase the housing provision while intervening IHM to suppress the potential threat to the regime with several means, such as denial of property rights associated with a house traded through an unofficial housing market, control of PHC, supply of the public housing by the government and severe punishments of private housing developers. In view of these characteristics, it is said that Kim’s regime controls the housing provision system to induce the people