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On December 8, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired a meeting to listen to a report on the Governments draft Resolution on a number of special mechanisms to handle difficulties and problems in social housing development. Giving instructions on simplifying the process and approval procedures for buying social housing, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested to develop a set of documents that are simple, clear and easy to implement - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi According to a report from the Ministry of Construction, to date, the country has 696 social housing projects being implemented with a scale of 637,048 units. Of which, 128,648 units have been completed, 123,057 units are under construction, and investment policies for 358,343 units have been approved. Localities have planned about 1,427 locations with an area of about 9,830 hectares of land for social housing. Through the process of implementing social housing development policies, the Ministry of Construction has worked with ministries, branches and localities to develop a Draft Government Resolution on a number of special mechanisms to handle difficulties and problems in social housing development to speed up progress and shorten the investment time for construction of social housing projects; create a complete, synchronous, unified legal corridor, remove difficulties and obstacles in the construction and development of social housing; create more incentive mechanisms to attract businesses to invest in social housing construction...More subjects are given priority to buy and rent-purchase social housing. At the meeting, representatives of ministries, branches and localities discussed the main contents in the draft Resolution including: Establishing and approving social housing project planning; additional subjects given priority to buy social housing; Choose to apply legal regulations of the investor in granting construction permits. Specifically, according to the Draft Resolution, in case an investor proposes an investment project to build social housing in a land area that has been planned as residential land, but does not have a zoning or detailed planning, the Provincial Peoples Committee is empowered to proactively decide on important land use planning criteria in advance, from there, the investor can proceed to prepare and approve the detailed planning. 1/500 to immediately implement the next steps of the project. Higher-level plans (subdivision planning, general planning) will be updated synchronously later. However, opinions at the meeting said that detailed planning for social housing projects must be done in the correct order from general planning, subdivision planning, and detailed planning, not following the reverse process. In order to shorten the time to prepare investment in social housing projects, representatives of the City Department of Construction. Hanoi proposes to add regulations to allow simultaneous implementation of the steps of preparing, appraising, approving, and adjusting zoning and detailed planning. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha visits the social housing area in Son Dong ward, Vinh Long province, on the afternoon of August 7, 2025 - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi Regarding the policy of adding priority subjects to purchase and lease purchase of social housing for families and individuals whose land is recovered or agreements to transfer land use rights to project investors to develop social housing and housing for the peoples armed forces, without having to draw lots and not having to To meet the housing and income conditions as prescribed, Vice Chairman of Bac Ninh Provincial Peoples Committee Pham Van Thinh proposed to expand the subjects to households and individuals whose agricultural land and production land are recovered to build social housing projects. The draft Resolution also proposes that investors of selected social housing projects apply the regulations on granting construction permits in Resolution No. 201/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly. number of specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development; or at Point c, Clause 1, Article 56 of the Railway Law No. 95/2025/QH15 amending and supplementing Point h, Clause 2, Article 89 of the Construction Law on regulations on works exempt from construction permits. Notably, comments at the meeting suggested that the Ministry of Construction reconsider the proposal to develop the type of social housing as individual houses and assign it to the Provincial Peoples Committee, based on specific local conditions, to submit to the Provincial Peoples Council for regulation. determined, except for centrally run cities and areas within the administrative boundaries of provincial wards. According to the report of the Ministry of Construction at the meeting, to date, the whole country has 696 social housing projects being implemented with a scale of 637,048 units - Photo: VGP/MInh Khoi Completing the draft Resolution with 2 main contents Concluding the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Construction to receive and complete the draft Resolution with 2 main contents: Mechanism for making and adjusting detailed planning for social housing projects; Supplementing subjects eligible to buy social housing. Accordingly, for social housing projects that have had investment policies approved but do not have detailed planning or zoning plans, the zoning and detailed planning can be prepared, appraised and approved simultaneously, with the requirement to ensure compatibility between planning levels and clearly define the responsibilities of approving agencies. This mechanism aims to solve difficulties in the process of implementing social housing projects, especially adjusting planning when there are changes in height, land use coefficient and related criteria. Regarding additional regulations, social housing buyers are people with residential land, production land or small businesses.If housing is revoked when impl
