Vietnamese Government: Effectively implement policies to support social housing

Vietnamese Government: Effectively implement policies to support social housing (Source: Internet)

Pursuant to Subsection b, Section 9, Part A of Resolution 85/NQ-CP in 2022, providing for the promotion of effective implementation of social housing policies as follows:

Specifically, the Government requested the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with agencies and localities in, summarizing and assessing the implementation of the law on urban planning and construction planning as a basis for research and development of the Law on Urban and Rural Planning on the basis of merging Chapter II of the Law on Construction 2014 and the Law on Urban Planning 2009;

At the same time, continue to work with a number of localities to remove obstacles and difficulties, promote the effective implementation of policies to support social housing and worker housing, and renovate and rebuild old apartments.

Currently, the policy on social housing is regulated in the Law on Housing (2014) and guiding documents.

Specifically, subjects who meet the conditions in Article 51 of the Law on Housing 2014 are entitled to the social housing support policy, including:

(1) People with meritorious services to the Resolution prescribed in law on preferential treatment for people with meritorious services to the Resolution;

(2) Households living in poverty or near poverty in rural areas;

(3) Households that are often affected by natural disasters or climate changes in rural areas;

(4) Individuals living in low income, poverty or near poverty in the urban areas;

(5) Employees working in enterprises inside or outside the industrial zones;

(6) Commissioned officers, professional and technical non-commissioned officers, standing army, and workers in the agencies of People’s Police and People’s Army of Vietnam;

(7) Officials and civil servants prescribed in law on officials and civil servants;

(8) Entities who have returned official residence as prescribed Clause 5 Article 81 of Law on Housing 2014;

(9) Students of institutes, universities, colleges, vocational training institutions; students of the public ethnic boarding schools using social housing during their duration of study;

(10) Households or individuals subject to land withdrawal and land clearance as prescribed without any compensation in form of housing or residential land paid by the State.

According to Article 51 of the Law on Housing 2014, the conditions for enjoying the social housing support policy are as follows:

- The entities eligible for the policies as prescribed in Clause 1 Article 50 of the Law on Housing 2014 shall satisfy the requirements pertaining to housing, residence, and income as follow:

+  They have not had any house under their homeownership, have not concluded any agreements on social housing purchase, lease, or lease purchase, have not benefited from any policy on housing or residential land support in any shape or form at the places where they live, study, or have houses under their homeownership, but the floor space per capita in the household is lower than the minimum space standard regulated by the Government of Vietnam in every period and every area;

+ They are required to register permanent residence in the province where the social housing is located; if not, they are required to register temporary residence in that province for at least one year, except for cases prescribed in Clause 9 Article 49 of this Law;

+ For subjects (4), (5), (6) and (7), they are required to be not subject to regular income tax as prescribed in law on personal income tax

With respect to households living in poverty and near poverty, they must be subject to the households living in poverty and near poverty as prescribed in regulations of the Prime Minister of Vietnam. Subjects (1), (8), (9) and (10) are not required to meet the income conditions specified at Point c, Clause 1, Article 51 of the Law on Housing 2014.

- The entities eligible for the policies as prescribed in Clause 2 and Clause 3 Article 50 of Law on Housing 2014 must conform to approval for target programs for housing granted by the competent agency.

- Any entity eligible for the policies as prescribed in Clause 4 Article 50 of Law on Housing 2014 shall satisfy the requirements pertaining to housing, residence, and income as follows:

+ They have residential land without housing, or they have housing but it is damaged or dilapidated;

+ They have registered permanent residence in the place where their residential land or housing required construction or renovation is located.

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