Couples with enough 2 children are prioritized to buy social housing
Article 14 of the 2025 Population Law stipulates measures to maintain the replacement fertility rate, including:
- In case of having a second child, the maternity leave period for female workers is 7 months; male workers is 10 working days when the wife gives birth;
- Financial support when giving birth to children for ethnic minority women who are very small;
- Financial support when giving birth to children for women in provinces and cities with birth rates below replacement birth rates;
- Financial support when giving birth to children for women who have enough 02 children before the age of 35;
- Prioritize the purchase, lease-purchase or lease of social housing according to the provisions of housing law for people with 02 or more biological children;
- Other measures decided by the Government
Thus, from July 1, 2026, couples (families) with 2 or more biological children will be prioritized to buy, lease-purchase or rent social housing according to the provisions of housing law.
13 subjects eligible for social housing support policies
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.
