Joining hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses: Finishing ahead of schedule

BAC NINH - Recently, Bac Ninh is one of the typical localities that the Central Steering Committee for Eliminating Temporary and Dilapidated Houses has assessed as having a drastic, thorough and effective approach in accordance with the motto "close to the people, close to the work" in the process of implementing the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses, bringing a better life to poor households, near-poor households and policy families.

Help poor households and families with housing policies

Much earlier than many provinces and cities across the country, even before the merger, Bac Ninh and Bac Giang had completed the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses by 2025. Beneficiaries include: People with meritorious services, poor and near-poor households, households receiving support from the socio-economic development program for ethnic minority areas, and the sustainable poverty reduction program.

Hoang Ha Vina Trading Joint Stock Company (Bac Giang ward) supports paint for poor households in Da Mai ward to build new houses.

In August 2025, Bac Ninh was honored to receive a Certificate of Merit from the Prime Minister for its many achievements in implementing the program and emulation movement "The whole country joins hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses" in 2025. Comrade Thai Hai Anh, Vice Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, said: "The program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses has brought about great changes for policy families, poor and near-poor households in the province. Each new house not only helps people stabilize their housing but also motivates them to rise up in labor production and escape poverty sustainably. This is a deeply humane program, demonstrating the Party and State's concern and care for social security and sustainable community development."

By the end of June 2025, the whole province had built and repaired more than 2,500 houses with a total support budget of more than 150 billion VND; completed the goal of eliminating temporary houses and dilapidated houses for poor and near-poor households and assisting families of meritorious people facing housing difficulties and dilapidated houses that need to be repaired and rebuilt in the province in 2025.

In June 2025, joy came to the family of Ms. Luong Thi Hung, a poor household in Mong B village (Tan Son commune) when they were able to live in a new, spacious house. Previously, Ms. Hung's whole family lived in a temporary, rickety house. Due to poor health and taking care of her nearly 100-year-old mother and a mentally disabled son, life was difficult. For many years, she had wished for a solid house to protect her from the rain and sun. That hope came when the locality implemented a program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses. Her family was the first household to be included in the list. Along with 60 million VND in support from the province's temporary and dilapidated house elimination program in 2025, she received money and working days from relatives and neighbors to build a spacious house on the land left by her parents. After 2 months of construction, the spacious, clean level 4 house was completed, fully equipped with essential appliances. On the day of handing over the house, Ms. Hung emotionally expressed her gratitude to the Party committees, local authorities and neighbors.

The houses carrying the warmth of the Party's spirit and people's love handed over to poor households, near-poor households and families of meritorious people in the province have actively contributed to the sustainable poverty reduction. By the end of June 2025, the whole province had built and repaired more than 2,500 houses with a total cost of more than 150 billion VND; completed the goal of eliminating temporary houses and dilapidated houses for poor and near-poor households and assisting families of meritorious people facing housing difficulties and dilapidated houses that need to be repaired and rebuilt in the province by 2025. The housing support program not only brings material value but is also a great source of spiritual encouragement, helping poor households, near-poor households, households in difficult circumstances, and families of meritorious people to have more confidence in life, actively strive to escape poverty, and at the same time demonstrate the noble morality of the nation.

Efforts to finish early

In an effort to reach the finish line ahead of the deadline set by the Government, Bac Ninh province mobilized the entire political system to participate in propaganda and advocacy work, promptly reviewing beneficiaries of the policy, ensuring fairness, objectivity, transparency and not missing any beneficiaries. More favorable in the process of accelerating the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses by 2025 is that communes and wards in the old Bac Ninh province have no more poor households since October 31, 2024. For households that are too difficult and unable to respond, localities have flexibly mobilized to support the construction of houses in the form of "turnkey" or additional support from charitable businesses and individuals.

A house has just been built for a poor household in Tien Luc commune from the fund of the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses.

With a creative approach, 20 houses were built in the form of "turnkey" for beneficiaries of this program in Xuan Cam, Hiep Hoa, Tan Dinh, Lang Giang communes and Viet Yen ward. In addition, the Provincial Steering Committee reviewed the whole province and found 27 households in particularly difficult circumstances in mountainous communes and disadvantaged areas. In addition to the prescribed support of 60 million VND/household for new construction and 30 million VND/household for repair, the Provincial Steering Committee mobilized the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade, Bac Giang branch to support 1 billion VND and draw from the fund mobilized to support the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in the province in 2025 to support each particularly difficult household with 50 million VND for new construction and 25 million VND for repair.

Creative in implementation, the communes of Lang Giang, My Thai, Kep, Tan Dinh, and Tien Luc have deployed the construction of prefabricated houses with low construction costs and fast construction time. A typical example is the newly built house of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Phuong's family at the end of Mai Ha village (My Thai commune). In a clean and beautiful campus, the existing small house is something she never dared to dream of. Immediately after being approved for support, My Thai commune mobilized human and financial resources to carry out the construction, helping the family quickly have a new place to live. Mrs. Phuong happily shared: "I am very happy that poor households receive the attention of the whole society, helping us have a better life."

For households with problems regarding land use rights, the Provincial People's Committee directed the Department of Agriculture and Environment to coordinate with localities to establish a working group to review, classify, and determine the cause of each case, promptly supporting people to complete legal procedures. Many households without land were donated land by relatives and neighbors and supported to build new houses. Not only helping people improve their housing, Bac Ninh also joined hands to help people in the provinces: old Bac Kan (now Thai Nguyen), Dien Bien, old Dac Nong (now Lam Dong), old Ben Tre (now Vinh Long) to remove temporary and dilapidated houses with a total amount of 92 billion VND.

The experience of implementing the program to support the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses in Bac Ninh is that the Party committees and local authorities put the interests of the people first, taking the consensus of the people as the driving force. At the same time, closely monitor so that the funding goes to the right place and the right target. These factors have created the "lightning speed" and success of the province in reaching the finish line ahead of schedule.

Promoting those results, in the coming time, the province will direct communes and wards to continue to review poor and near-poor households, and policy families facing housing difficulties that need support for repair and new construction in the province to have a plan to advise and propose support in 2025. Organizations, businesses, and philanthropists inside and outside the province continue to promote the spirit of humanity, sharing, and accompanying the locality in the journey to support the poor and people in difficult circumstances to stabilize their housing and improve their lives. Families who have benefited from the program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses continue to promote the spirit of self-reliance, actively work, participate in patriotic emulation movements, and contribute to building an increasingly civilized and prosperous homeland.

Article and photos: Minh Thu

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