Strive for no meritorious people to live in temporary or dilapidated houses by July 27, 2025.

The meeting focused on assessing the implementation of goals and tasks after the 5th meeting; implementing the goal of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide, including eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses for people with meritorious services, relatives and families of martyrs; reviewing and perfecting the Steering Committees at all levels in accordance with the 2-level local government model.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the 6th meeting of the Steering Committee for eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses.

As of July 8, 2025, 18/34 localities have completed the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses (52.9%); the remaining 16/34 localities are striving to complete the target. Thus, since the 5th Session, 7 more localities have completed the target of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses.

In terms of quantity, by the end of July 8, 2025, the whole country has supported the elimination of 264,522 temporary and dilapidated houses (of which: 229,328 houses have been inaugurated and started construction, 35,194 houses are under construction). The remaining number of houses that need to be implemented from now until August 31, 2025 is 25,232 houses (including: 18,799 houses are under construction and 6,433 houses have not started construction). On average, each locality needs to implement 26 houses/day (of which nearly 7 new houses/day are started and about 19 houses are completed for handover/day).

Regarding funding, the total mobilized resources (central budget, local budget, social mobilization) up to this point is over 17,802 billion VND; mobilized over 113,400 people with over 1 million working days for the work of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide. The total source of saving 5% of regular expenditure of the state budget allocated to support localities in implementing the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses is over 4,424 billion VND.

Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh acknowledged and commended the ministries, agencies, localities, and members of the Steering Committee for their efforts, with a positive spirit and high sense of responsibility, regularly urging and inspecting the work and proposing solutions to achieve the goal of shortening the time to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for people nationwide; and sincerely thanked the organizations, individuals, and philanthropists who accompanied and actively contributed to the program.

The Prime Minister said that the whole country has shortened the deadline by 5 years compared to the plan (from 2030 as originally planned to 2025), then continued to shorten the timelines (from December 31 to October 30, 2025 and finally to August 31, 2025). This is a great effort of the entire Party, the entire army, and the entire people.

According to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, July and August 2025 will have many important anniversaries for the country: the 78th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947 - July 27, 2025) and the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945 - August 19, 2025), the 80th anniversary of the People's Public Security Forces' Traditional Day; preparing to celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Day. Along with that, the whole country is promoting emulation movements, building key works and projects, making achievements to welcome party congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Party Congress.

Therefore, completing the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide is extremely meaningful; it is necessary to identify the advantages, the difficulties that need to be resolved, the key tasks, breakthrough solutions, the points that need to be accelerated and made a breakthrough to complete the set tasks, especially supporting localities with financial difficulties.

The Prime Minister requested to resolutely complete the goal of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide before August 31, in time to celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Day on September 2; in particular, the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses for people with meritorious services, relatives and families of martyrs must be completed before July 27, 2025 to express deep gratitude for the sacrifices and contributions of heroic martyrs and those who have contributed to the revolution through practical and specific actions.

The Prime Minister commended 18 provinces and cities that have completed the removal of temporary and dilapidated houses. For the remaining 16 provinces and cities that have not completed this work, the Prime Minister stated that the Secretaries and Chairmen of the People's Committees of the localities (at 2 levels of government) must directly direct this work, considering it an important political task, of great significance, of profound humanity, demonstrating the spirit and responsibility of Party members.

The Prime Minister requested to closely follow and grasp the situation of each household, update data, strengthen inspection and supervision, match words with actions, work for the people and the country with the highest responsibility, sharing from the heart.

In the immediate future, it is necessary to check and review so that by July 24th at the latest, all families of people with revolutionary contributions must be supported to complete the demolition of temporary and dilapidated houses. Localities that still have temporary and dilapidated houses need to simultaneously start construction on the unfinished houses, strive to complete and hand over to the people before August 15th.

Emphasizing the need for effective implementation, the Prime Minister stated that the budget has been allocated and there is a full payment plan, localities must be very flexible, and can make advances according to regulations. At the same time, create motivation, inspire, and launch a movement to support and contribute in spirit, effort and material, "whoever has something helps, whoever has merit helps merit, whoever has property helps property, whoever has a lot helps a lot, whoever has little helps a little".

The Prime Minister emphasized that we must promote the core values of our nation, which are patriotism, love for our people, national love, and solidarity, "the whole leaf covers the torn leaf, the torn leaf covers the more torn leaf", the whole country joins hands and wholeheartedly helps those who are homeless, those who are living in temporary houses, dilapidated houses, and especially the families of those who have contributed to the revolution, those who have sacrificed for the cause of national liberation and national construction.

Along with that, mobilizing the forces of the Army, Police, Fatherland Front, Youth Union, Veterans Association, Women's Association... in the area, these forces have been directed and are always proactive and ready to participate.

In particular, if people still lack land to demolish temporary or dilapidated houses, the local government must arrange for them, because our Party and State have only the greatest goal of maintaining the independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the country and taking care of the people's prosperity and happiness.

The Prime Minister also directed the Ministry of Finance to quickly handle procedures related to the budget and funding for the program; the State Bank urged banks to disburse the support amount as committed.

Considering that the time to complete the set goals is still very short and the remaining work is not much in quantity but is difficult and these last days are very difficult because the easy tasks have been done first, the Prime Minister requested ministries, branches, localities, units, enterprises, organizations and individuals to spend more time, more effort, more attention, participate, inspect, supervise and promote more drastically to complete all the set goals.

According to VNA

Source: https://baobacninhtv.vn/phan-dau-tu-ngay-27-7-2025-khong-con-nguoi-co-cong-phai-o-nha-tam-nha-dot-nat-postid421598.bbg