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On May 29, the National Assembly passed a resolution piloting several special policies to promote the development of social housing, including significant changes to the conditions for purchasing and renting this type of housing. The criteria will be based on the administrative scope at the time before the rearrangement of administrative units.
Specifically, people who do not own a house, or who own a house far from their workplace, or who have never benefited from social housing support policies, will be subject to detailed criteria determined by the provincial People’s Committee for approval.
This regulation aims to address practical difficulties when many workers are working in urban or industrial areas but own houses in rural areas and do not meet the conditions because they already own houses in the same province.
In addition, the process of merging provincial-level administrative units may also change the eligibility conditions. Accordingly, before the merger, residents may be eligible because they do not own a house in the project area. But after the change in administrative boundaries, they no longer meet the new eligibility criteria.
The National Assembly’s recently passed resolution also allows enterprises, cooperatives, unions, government agencies, political organizations, socio-political organizations, and public non-business units to rent social housing to arrange accommodations for their officers, civil servants, public employees, workers, and laborers.
The cost of renting social housing for workers will be accounted for in production and business expenses or regular expenditure. The government emphasizes that this policy aims to support stable housing for people, especially those affected by the rearrangement of administrative units in accordance with the policies of the Politburo and the Secretariat.
Speaking before the National Assembly, Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh said that one of the main points of the resolution is to create strong incentives to attract enterprises to invest in social housing.
Accordingly, projects of this type will not have to go through the procedure of bidding for investor selection or approval of investment policies. The project will be assigned to a specific investor, shortening about 200 days, equivalent to 70% of the time compared to the present.
In addition, the project is also exempt from the steps of establishing, appraising, and approving the detailed planning task, saving about 65 days. Construction packages are allowed to apply for shortened designated bidding, without the need for wide-range bidding.
Projects using typical or typical designs are exempt from construction permits. Investors are also allowed to self-construct and approve selling prices, rental purchase prices for social housing, without appraisal by provincial-level specialized agencies. After completion and handover, the investor will carry out auditing, settlement, and send the dossier to the specialized agency for inspection.
To ensure the effective implementation of the new policies, the resolution stipulates that the Government shall supplement solutions to control, inspect, and evaluate the quality of social housing, while preventing loopholes, corruption, negativity, waste, or policy exploitation.
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