A number of specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development piloted
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 2, chaired a conference to deploy the Resolution No. 201/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development and reviewing and assessing the social housing development situation in the first 5 months of the year, and the implementation plan for the last months of 2025, at the Government headquarters.
The conference was connected online from the Government headquarters to the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities. At the Hung Yen’s bridge point the conference drew the attendance of comrade Nguyen Le Huy, Member of the Provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee...
Delegates attend the conference at the Hung Yen’s bridge point
Recently, the Government and the Prime Minister have focused on directing ministries and branches to resolutely implement tasks and solutions, remove difficulties, obstacles, and institutional bottlenecks to promote the development of social housing.
To date, the whole country has planned 1,309 locations with a scale of more than 9.7 thousand hectares of land for social housing. Most localities have reserved enough social housing land in favorable locations; the whole country has 679 social housing projects implemented with a scale of more than 623 thousand apartments. In the first 5 months of 2025, the whole country has completed more than 22.6 thousand apartments; 21 more projects have started construction with a scale of more than 20.4 thousand apartments.
On May 29, 2025, the National Assembly issued Resolution No. 201/2025/QH15 on a number of specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development. The issued Resolution has many breakthrough mechanisms and policies such as establishing a National Housing Fund; expanding the scope of enterprises, state agencies, political organizations, and socio-political organizations to rent social housing to arrange for their officials, civil servants, public employees, and workers to live in, creating conditions for officials, civil servants, public employees, and workers to work with peace of mind, including foreign employees and workers. Many contents in the Resolution have reduced and reformed administrative procedures in social housing development such as: Assigning investors not to go through bidding, not requiring detailed planning tasks, eliminating procedures for basic design appraisal, price appraisal, exempting construction permits, integrating some administrative procedures... Along with that, the Resolution supplements and assigns the Provincial-level People's Committee to stipulate conditions for enjoying social housing policies for subjects affected by the organization and rearrangement of administrative units...
Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessed that in the past, despite difficulties, the implementation of tasks, solutions, removing difficulties, obstacles, and institutional bottlenecks to promote social housing development has been carried out resolutely and seriously.
However, the implementation of social housing projects still faces many difficulties and obstacles, in which the main focus is on complicated and lengthy institutions and administrative procedures.
To carry out the Prime Minister's direction at the National Conference on removing difficulties and obstacles, promoting the development of social housing on March 6, 2025, the agencies submitted to the Government to propose to the Politburo and the National Assembly on 6 specific mechanisms and policies to immediately remove difficulties and obstacles for social housing projects. After the National Assembly issued Resolution No. 201/2025/QH15, the Government issued an Action Program to implement the Resolution.
However, to effectively implement and concretize these specific mechanisms and policies, it is necessary to continue to have unified direction and leadership of Party committees, heads of ministries, branches and localities.
The Prime Minister requested localities to immediately implement the Resolution, without delay; at the same time, it is necessary to review and re-examine the implementation of assigned tasks to ministries, branches, and localities, good and bad work, in the spirit of clearly identifying people, clear work, clear time, clear responsibility, clear authority, and clear results...
