The Pyeongseong Safe Zone's workforce was fully occupied with housing construction.
Public heating shelters had mostly been completed, but they couldn't have everyone crammed into communal spaces all winter.
After finishing the communal buildings, the next step was private housing construction—either tearing down and rebuilding or repairing existing homes.
Of course, housing wasn't free.
The authorities provided some subsidies, but residents had to pay with either crystal cores or contribution points.
For those without enough resources, there were two options.
They could continue living in the communal buildings until they saved enough money, though communal housing required a daily fee of one contribution point—a negligible amount meant to prevent misuse of public resources.
The second option was signing a deferred payment contract with the safe zone.