Can Tho (VNA) – The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho’s steering committee for eliminating substandard and dilapidated housing aims to ensure that 100% of eligible residents in need will have new, stable homes before the opening of the 15th municipal Party Congress, according to Chairman of the city People’s Committee Tran Viet Truong.
A recent review identified 955 households in need of housing assistance, including poor and near-poor families and those of revolutionary contributors. Among them, 424 have failed to meet the criteria for new construction or repairs. As of now, 531 homes in the city still require either construction or renovation, with an estimated budget of 27 billion VND (1.06 million USD). This includes building 371 new ones at a cost of 22.2 billion VND and repairing 160 houses 4.8 billion VND.
Tran Thi Xuan Mai, Director of the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs, acknowledged significant challenges to the work, which is expected to be done by September 2025.
Last year, the city completed the construction and repair of 665 homes worth 38.6 billion VND, benefiting poor, near-poor, ethnic minority households as well as the group of policy beneficiaries and revolutionary contributors.
The nationwide campaign to do away with temporary and dilapidated houses was officially launched on April 13 in 2024, with the goal of completing the task by 2025. Its three key objectives are: providing housing for people with meritorious services to the revolution (about 200,000 units) using state funds; assisting in building homes for low-income households under national target programmes (about 88,000 units); eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses for other vulnerable groups across the country. Approximately 153,881 substandards houses of other vulnerable groups will need funding of at least 6.5 trillion VND to replace./.
