Based on Article 76 of the 2023 Housing Law supplemented by point a, clause 3, Article 29 of the 2025 Population Law (effective from July 1, 2026) stipulating the subjects entitled to social housing support policies as follows:
1. People with meritorious services to the revolution, relatives of martyrs who are eligible for housing improvement support according to the provisions of the Ordinance on Preferential Treatment for People with Meritorious Services to the Revolution.
2. Poor and near-poor households in rural areas.
3. Poor and near-poor households in rural areas in areas frequently affected by natural disasters and climate change.
4. Poor and near-poor households in urban areas.
5. Low-income people in urban areas.
6. Workers and employees working at enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions inside and outside industrial parks.
7. Officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned officers of the People's Armed Forces, police workers, civil servants, national defense workers and public employees serving in the army; people working in cipher work, people working other jobs in cipher organizations receiving salaries from the state budget who are working.
8. Cadres, civil servants, public employees according to the provisions of law on cadres, civil servants, public employees.
9. Subjects who have returned official residences according to the provisions of Clause 4, Article 125 of the 2023 Housing Law, except in cases where official residences are recovered due to violations of the provisions of the 2023 Housing Law.
10. Households and individuals subject to land acquisition and must have houses cleared and demolished according to the provisions of law that have not been compensated by the State with houses and residential land.
11. Students of universities, academies, universities, colleges, vocational schools, specialized schools according to the provisions of law; students of public ethnic minority boarding schools.
12. Enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative unions in industrial parks.
13. People with 2 or more biological children.
Thus, from July 1, 2026, the 2025 Population Law adds cases where people with 2 or more biological children are entitled to social housing support policies.
