The province of Đắk Lắk has completed its largest housing project to date, aimed at supporting poor households, families with special policies and ethnic minority communities.
From 2000 to 2023, more than 1.7 million homes have been either newly built or repaired to support poor households and those facing difficult circumstances.
Nationwide about 340,000 households with meritorious services to the revolution and over 800,000 poor and near-poor households have been helped with housing difficulties.
Ninh Thuận Province aims to build 500 houses by the end of 2024 and essentially eliminate temporary, damaged, and degraded houses for the poor and near-poor by the end of 2025.
From 2000 to 2023, more than 1.7 million houses were built or repaired for disadvantaged families, encouraging them to rise above poverty levels and live sustainably.
PM Phạm Minh Chính called for concerted efforts and drastic actions of sectors and localities to complete the set goal to remove temporary and dilapidated houses by December 31 next year.
He called on the local authorities and community to spread the spirit of a collective effort, effectively manage resources and achieve the goal of improved housing for poor residents.
The experts will talk about how in a Vietnamese village, communal houses are not just physical architecture, but also a hybrid space that fuses daily life and sacredness.
Under the government’s recently issued Decree No. 96/2024/NĐ-CP, individuals engaged in real estate business are not allowed to buy or sell houses more than 10 times yearly.
The HCM City Department of Construction expects that boarding houses for rent in the City must meet requirements to continue operating, such as ensuring a minimum floor area of five square metres per person, be located in at least a four-metre wide alley, be no more than 100 metres from the main road and have an emergency exit.
A storm that hit U Minh District in Cà Mau Province on Friday destroyed eight houses and damaged the roofs of 13 others, causing estimated losses of over VNĐ1.2 billion (US$47,400).
The central province has called for contributions from community and businesses in rebuilding more than 10,000 poorly structured and unsafe houses in the province in 2024-25.
Bình Phước Province aims to wrap up its programme of eliminating temporary and dilapidated dwellings and replace them with concrete houses for poor people next year.
To prevent tragedies and minimise loss of life or property damage, the PM requested ministries, Government agencies, provinces and cities to identify fire prevention as a key task that needs regular work.
Many poor people in HCM City are forced to live in makeshift houses along canals, where the environment is dirty, dangerous and unhealthy. They all hope for a more stable life in better places. Hear what they have to say.
