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The mossy walls of old apartment buildings in HCM City have been painted with giant murals as part of the Saigon Urban Arts 2021 project.

A street mural project has been recently launched in Ho Chi Minh City to honour street artists and give old apartment blocks in the southern hub a facelift.

The Hanoi People's Committee has just submitted a report to the municipal People’s Council for approving in principal a project to upgrade and rebuild old apartment buildings in the capital city.

The important task of renovating and rebuilding dilapidated apartment buildings in Hanoi has faced several obstacles related to planning, land clearance, and profits for investors and residents, Ha Noi Moi (New Hanoi) newspaper has reported.

About 600 out of 2,500 old apartment buildings in Vietnam are in dangerous or seriously dilapidated conditions, making up some 25 percent of the total number of old buildings.

HCM City in the first half of the year sold 1,000 state-owned houses and apartment buildings, far short of its plan to sell 5,000 of the buildings by the end of the year.

Ten years after beginning renovation work on old apartment buildings in Hanoi, the city has renovated 14 of some 1,516 old apartment buildings, a seminar has reported.

A reconstruction plan for old apartment buildings in Hanoi should be completed by the end of this month, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

The Ministry of Construction will conduct a comprehensive inspection on apartment buildings built before 1994 and urban public works with the duration of more than 60 years in cities across Vietnam.