Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 23 chaired a meeting on housing assistance for people affected by flash floods and landslides nationwide, stressing that helping the victims to rebuild houses is an urgent task.
The south central province of Phu Yen has effectively carried out its housing assistance policy for those who rendered their services to the nation, thus supporting many families of policy beneficiaries.
People with low-incomes are now confronting a crisis as the preferential loan package of 30 trillion VND for affordable home purchases ended in 2016, with no workable alternative currently on offer.
The Ministry of Construction held a national conference in Hanoi on May 26 to review the implementation of the Prime Minister’s Decision No.22/2013/QD-TTg on housing support for those who made contributions to the national liberation revolution.
The Ministry of Construction has asked the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to extend the terms of the government’s 30 trillion VND (1.3 billion USD) property support package.
Localities, agencies and organisations are working together to help disadvantaged people, needy workers and state policy beneficiaries enjoy a warm traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
The Prime Minister has issued a decision on housing support policies for impoverished households living below the poverty line for 2011-2015, targeting about 311,000 rural families.
The Ministry of Construction has set the target of increasing average
living space per person to 21.5 square metres this year, 0.9 m2 more
than the figure of 2014.
Vietnam has recorded encouraging poverty reduction results, with the rate of poor households dropping by 2 percent each year on average and 4 percent in mountainous districts, a key government minister has declared.
Voters in the northern mountainous provinces of Lang Son and Cao Bang
have met with the deputies to the National Assembly’s upcoming sixth
meeting, asking them to convey an array of their issues needing the
law-making body’s answer.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked relevant ministries and sectors
to come up with suitable mechanisms and policies for specific groups of
people that need State assistance under the current housing development
strategy.
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