Arrange accommodation for workers

QNgTV- Quang Ngai province currently has over 85,300 workers and laborers working in factories and offices, mainly concentrated in Dung Quat Economic Zone and other industrial parks such as VSIP, Tinh Phong Industrial Park, Quang Phu Industrial Park... All of these workers have to find their own accommodation by renting cramped rooms or staying at relatives' houses dozens of kilometers away from their workplace. The province's demand for social housing is very large.

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In early 2025, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor had a meeting with provincial leaders and agreed on a plan to build 750 apartments for workers in the VSIP Industrial Park, but so far, the plan has not come true. Thousands of workers at factories in northern Quang Ngai still go to work early in the morning and return home in the evening by all kinds of vehicles, causing local traffic jams on National Highway 1 at rush hour.

According to the plan, the Government has assigned Quang Ngai to build 8,500 social housing units by 2030. If the above plan is completed, it will only meet 1/10 of the number of people needing housing. In order to complete this plan early, Quang Ngai province has issued many preferential policies to attract investors such as the province will take care of all site clearance, hand over "clean land" to investors and at the same time support 70% of the cost for infrastructure construction. This preferential policy compared to neighboring provinces is quite open, easy to attract investors.

According to a report from the Department of Construction, 19 locations have been planned for social housing construction with a total area of ​​271 hectares. This is a fairly abundant land fund for investment in social housing construction. In addition, 7 commercial housing projects in urban areas in the province have also reserved 20% of their land fund for social housing construction.

Up to this point, Quang Ngai province has completed and put into operation 144 social housing units in the western wards of the province (formerly Kon Tum ) and is building 48 units. The province has also assigned the investor a project with a scale of over 600 units, with a total investment of about 600 billion VND, expected to start construction this October.

Thus, the direction to complete the 8,500 social housing units that the Government has assigned to the province is clear. The province's attractive incentive policies for investors have also been shown in documents. However, the implementation of construction to meet the housing needs of workers and the interests of investors is a problem that needs to be solved soon.

Recently, in a meeting with housing construction businesses in Hanoi, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had to exclaim that the house prices that investors advertised for sale at 70-100 million/m2 were "sky-high prices", and workers with average incomes could not afford them.

With the average income of workers in Quang Ngai currently at 8-10 million/month, it is difficult to dream of a home worth 1.5-2 billion VND.

Businesses always consider profits, but with social housing, we should not put profits first but think about low-income people and find a way for them to be able to buy a house. That is what we should aim for.

Source: https://quangngaitv.vn/lo-cho-o-cho-nguoi-lao-dong-6508922.html