Hanoi (VNA) – Around 3 million workers will havedemand for housing by 2020, according to reports by 46 out of 63 provinces andcities.
As of late 2017, about 1.2 million workers neededaccommodations, the reports said.
The Ministry of Construction revealed that its socialhousing programme for workers in industrial zones has finished 100 projectswith 41,000 apartments, meeting the demand of 330,000 workers or 28 percent ofthe total.
The remaining 72 projects of the programme will be completedin the time ahead, offering 88,000 apartments for workers.
To speed up housing development for workers in industrialzones, the Government issued Directive No.03 on stepping up the development ofsocial housing and Decision No.655 on the approval of a project to build tradeunion institutions in industrial and export processing zones which containshousing development.
By the end of 2017, Vietnam had 328 industrial zones, with223 of them becoming operational. Currently, more than 2.7 million people areworking in industrial zones, and millions of others in factories in small- andmedium-sized industrial clusters.-VNA
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