“An urban area needs many housing segments, including social housing”

(Dan Tri) - Regarding the orientation of social housing development, the Prime Minister said that in an urban area, there should be many different housing segments, including social housing, sharing essential infrastructure for transportation, culture, society...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh , Head of the Central Steering Committee on housing policy and real estate market, chaired a conference with ministries, branches, localities and businesses on solutions for breakthrough development of social housing on the morning of October 24.

The conference was held directly at the Government headquarters and online with 17 provinces and cities with great demand for social housing.

According to the report, up to now, the country has 696 social housing projects that have been and are being implemented, with a scale of more than 637,000 units. In the first 9 months of 2025 alone, the country has completed over 50,000 units (reaching 50.5%) and it is expected that by the end of 2025, more than 89,000 units will be completed, reaching 89% of the yearly plan.

The Prime Minister chaired a conference with ministries, branches, localities and businesses on breakthrough solutions for social housing development (Photo: Doan Bac).

At the meeting, delegates focused on discussing and contributing ideas to the draft new Resolution of the Government on implementing a number of breakthrough solutions for social housing development in the coming time, especially assigning a number of enterprises to be investors in social housing projects.

In his concluding remarks at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the Ministry of Construction to fully absorb all valid opinions to promptly complete the draft resolution to submit to the Government for consideration and promulgation within the next 5 days.

According to the head of the Government, the resolution aims to remove previously unresolved legal obstacles, thereby creating a breakthrough in the development of social housing.

The resolution has a long-term application period, and is applicable to all provinces and cities across the country. The Prime Minister clearly stated the orientation to encourage the participation of qualified enterprises, criteria on finance, experience, potential, time, price; creating the most favorable and open conditions for the implementation time of projects from 2-3 years.

The Prime Minister requested to cut at least 50% of administrative procedures, put social housing projects into the "green channel" and "priority channel" groups to complete procedures quickly and promptly.

Along with that, according to him, it is necessary to create clean land funds for social housing development in a flexible way; diversify capital sources for social housing development, including credit capital, State capital through the Social Policy Bank, Housing Development Fund, bond issuance, etc.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested to cut down on procedures and create favorable conditions for investment in social housing (Photo: Doan Bac).

The Government leader requested that localities must have regulations and responsibilities in quickly, neatly and accurately resolving administrative procedures for social housing development, following the motto "locality decides, locality does, locality is responsible". The Prime Minister noted to promote the spirit of daring to think, daring to do but impartially and transparently, doing what is good for the people and the country; harmonizing the interests of the State, businesses and people.

Regarding the conditions and procedures for beneficiaries of social housing policies, the Prime Minister clearly stated the direction of strengthening post-inspection, based on integrated and interconnected data nationwide to strictly control, ensure transparency, and clear information about those who need to buy houses.

The Head of Government also emphasized the need to expand the subjects participating in social housing development and beneficiaries; develop social housing in both urban and rural areas in the direction of most economical and effective land use.

Delegates attending the Conference (Photo: Doan Bac).

According to the Prime Minister, in an urban area there should be many different housing segments, including social housing, sharing essential infrastructure for transportation, electricity, water, telecommunications, culture, society, health care, education, sports, etc.

In the Government's Resolution on this issue, the Prime Minister requested that there must be contents related to the trading floor, national housing fund, housing data...

The head of the Government assigned Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to direct the Ministry of Construction to urgently complete the draft resolution.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/thoi-su/mot-khu-do-thi-can-nhieu-phan-khuc-nha-trong-do-co-nha-o-xa-hoi-20251024144216219.htm