Hanoi has launched a programmeto improve the housing conditions for families of those who everrendered great services to the country’s reunification.
Under the programme, which will run until 2016, the city will help4,423 such households build new homes with financial support worth 40million VND (1,880 USD) for each. Meanwhile, 5,493 households will begiven 20 million VND (940 USD) to upgrade their houses.
In the first half of this year, the city plans to spend 8.88 billionVND (417,360 USD) supporting 222 families to build new houses and 6.58billion VND (309,260 USD) to assist 329 others to repair their houses.
As much as 80 percent of the total cost for theprogramme is funded by the State budget, with the remaining sourced fromthe city budget and community donations.-VNA