Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivering a speech to launch the nationwide campaign to join hands to “eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses” throughout the country in 2025 – Photo: VGP |
On April 13, 2024, after the launching ceremony of the nationwide campaign calling for joint efforts to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in Da Bac district, Hoa Binh province, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the groundbreaking ceremony to build new houses for a number of disadvantaged households.
According to the Prime Minister, Vietnam has “become a role model” when it comes to the early achievement of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals on hunger eradication and poverty reduction. By applying various policies and strategies, tens of millions of families have escaped poverty and now live a moderate or fairly comfortable life.
According to surveys conducted by localities, 315,000 households are in need of housing assistance, and local authorities are implementing support programs for 145,000 households by the end of 2025. This means that approximately 170,000 poor and near-poor households have yet to receive support and are still living in temporary or dilapidated houses. Many of these families also lack essential infrastructure and basic social services such as electricity, clean water, healthcare, and education. Therefore, the head of the Government called for and encouraged people and businesses to “contribute whatever you can, whether it’s labor or money”, thereby creating a nationwide movement to build houses for these households from now until the end of 2025.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the need to diversify resource mobilization. The central government will allocate budget funds under the housing assistance program for people but ministries, sectors, and localities need to allocate sufficient capital according to the plan.
In response to the Prime Minister’s appeal, businesses pledged VND337 billion (US$14.5 million). The Prime Minister and the President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee presented financial support to the provinces of Hoa Binh, Lai Chau, Son La, Lao Cai, and Yen Bai, with each province receiving VND10 billion (US$430,000).
Since 2011, the state budget and socialized funds have supported the construction and repair of houses for 820,000 families of contributors and poor households nationwide. The Vietnam Fatherland Front at all levels has supported the construction of solidarity houses for 670,000 poor or disadvantaged households.
