Speaking to Lao Dong Newspaper reporter, Mr. Le Hoang Chau, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA) said that through researching the regulations, there are many problems when businesses want to build accommodation for workers.
The 2023 Housing Law only stipulates that enterprises are allowed to rent worker accommodation in industrial parks to arrange for workers to rent. As for the case of renting social housing outside industrial parks, it is still unknown whether it is allowed or not. In addition, the Law has not yet regulated that enterprises in industrial parks are allowed to invest in building accommodation for employees working at their enterprises.
Therefore, in the document commenting on the draft to pilot a number of specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development sent to the Prime Minister recently, Mr. Le Hoang Chau said that the Association has proposed to have a pilot mechanism to allow the above type of investment.
If businesses are allowed to build their own houses for workers, it will help workers feel secure in their attachment, contribute to improving workers' housing conditions, and promote the sustainable development of industrial parks.
In fact, there have been some cases of implementing this model in Ho Chi Minh City. A typical example is Nissei Electric Vietnam Company in Linh Trung 1 Export Processing Zone, Thu Duc City, which has built a boarding house with 285 collective rooms (8 people/room) to accommodate 2,280 workers. Or Eternal Prowess Vietnam Company, District 12 also built a house to accommodate workers.
At the same time, the Association has also proposed expanding regulations for enterprises in industrial parks to rent social housing and worker accommodation of investors built outside the industrial park.
Regarding the issue of the Housing Law 2023, which is the cost of investing in building a worker accommodation in an industrial park for workers to live in or the cost of renting social housing in projects outside the industrial park, according to Mr. Chau, these costs also need to be recognized as legal and valid costs and accounted for in the production and business costs of the enterprise.
In case the project proposed by the investor is not included in the housing development program and plan, after the Provincial People's Committee has issued a document assigning the investor, the Department of Construction is responsible for synthesizing and reporting to the competent authority to update in the most recent period to establish and adjust the housing development program and plan of the locality, and at the same time the investor is deployed and implemented the social housing project according to the provisions of law.
