Vinh Loc B resettlement area (Binh Chanh district) has an area of over 30 hectares including 45 apartment blocks with nearly 2,000 apartments and 559 plots of land, officially put into use since 2011 with the purpose of housing thousands of households in the area of Tham Luong canal clearance and some urban beautification programs of Ho Chi Minh City. However, up to now, this resettlement area is still sparsely populated. Currently, this area is increasingly degraded and has signs of subsidence, cracked walls... Explaining the above phenomenon, according to many people, in addition to the poor quality of the construction, the resettlement area is far from the center, inconvenient traffic affects the livelihood, so many people are afraid to live in the resettlement area.
Ms. Hang's family, who has lived in the Vinh Loc B resettlement area for more than 3 years, has had a difficult life because they cannot find a job. Ms. Hang opened a restaurant and a drink shop, but they had to close them down after a short time because they had no customers. Similar to Ms. Hang's family, Ms. Loan's family was also subject to clearance to implement the Tham Luong - Ben Cat - Rach Nuoc Len canal pollution improvement project. According to Ms. Loan, in the past, she sold noodles and rice noodles, earning 100,000 - 200,000 VND per day. In the resettlement area, she also opened a shop selling sticky rice in the morning and snails at noon and in the evening, but it closed down after less than a week because there were no customers.
Faced with the current state of the degraded resettlement areas, many residents of old apartment buildings forced to relocate are also apprehensive. Mr. Duc - a resident of the old apartment building at 155-157 Bui Vien (District 1) said that he would find a temporary room to stay while waiting for the apartment building to be renovated rather than moving to the resettlement area because it is far away, affecting the work and study of his children.
It is worth mentioning that not only the resettlement areas located far from the center are deserted, but also the apartments in convenient locations are in a state of "empty houses and gardens". A typical example is the Binh Khanh resettlement area (Thu Duc City). With a land area of 38.4 hectares, this resettlement area was completed in 2015. However, since then, many blocks of houses have remained closed and are seriously degraded.
As one of the few families who moved here to live after their land was confiscated to build the new urban area of Thu Thiem, Mr. Ha Van Luong said that although it is located right on the main road Mai Chi Tho, which is very prime, because the price of resettlement housing here is quite high, many people cannot afford to buy it, so they have to resell their house to others. Mr. Luong confided: “This place is more convenient than the old place in terms of transportation and security. However, resettlement residents cannot calculate their livelihood when living here, because the infrastructure is not suitable for people to do business and trade. In addition, people are used to the old lifestyle, not used to living in an apartment building.”
Recently, the leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee held a meeting to listen to the detailed plan of procedures for organizing the auction of land lots and 3,790 apartments in this resettlement area. This is the fourth time this apartment complex has been put up for auction, after previous auctions failed.
Faced with the situation that this resettlement area has been sluggish for too long and the construction has deteriorated, some experts say that the city should consider reducing prices, switching to social housing or auctioning small lots, or even auctioning by unit. Because according to experts, retail is a form of approaching people with real needs with moderate value instead of auctioning by lots with too large amounts of money, making it difficult to attract individuals or organizations to participate.
According to many experts, there is a paradox that Ho Chi Minh City is in dire need of affordable housing for workers and low-income earners. The survey results conducted by the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies show that there are nearly 100,000 households and individuals in Ho Chi Minh City who want to buy, rent, or rent-to-own social housing. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of resettlement houses are abandoned, and people are not interested in living there.
Mr. Le Hoang Chau - Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA) said: "Binh Khanh resettlement area is the largest and most massive resettlement area in the city, which is abandoned, wasting a lot of resources. The lesson is that in order to not waste resettlement housing projects, we must do a good job of planning, and must determine the correct location to build the resettlement area to ensure traffic and social infrastructure for the recipients.
In addition, it is necessary to identify the right recipients to suit the needs, circumstances, and living culture of residents in each area. The apartments built must be associated with social security policies such as vocational training, better job creation, or income recovery, contributing to improving the quality of life for people after relocation. The apartments built need to be calculated closely to actual needs, avoiding excess. The resettlement implementation work must be innovated, analyzed, and demand forecasted accurately to balance with the ability to respond, and allocate reasonably."
According to experts, there are many reasons why people are not interested in resettlement housing or why many resettlement apartments are left empty. One reason is that people are used to their old places and do not want to move to resettlement housing. First of all, people are concerned about the quality of resettlement housing, when many resettlement areas are currently of poor quality, some places have shown signs of deterioration such as leaks, cracked walls, etc. In addition, the locations of some resettlement areas are in unfavorable places, in areas with cheap land, or infrastructure and utilities are too lacking. The arrangement of resettlement housing is not suitable for the living conditions of households subject to migration, which is the main reason for the current situation of abandoned housing areas.
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