On the morning of January 27, the 16th Hanoi City People's Council held a thematic session (the 31st session).
At the meeting, the City People's Council approved a resolution adjusting the Housing Development Program of Hanoi City for the period 2021-2030.
According to the adjusted content, the city proposes to promulgate specific mechanisms for social housing, including adjusting the framework of regulations on social housing area to meet the diverse needs of groups of subjects, in line with the trend of increasing the average housing area per capita and increasing living standards. Relaxing conditions for accessing social housing in terms of income and living conditions, expanding the group of subjects eligible to buy, rent, and lease-purchase to attract high-quality human resources and meet the actual housing needs of a large number of people.
Focus on implementing urban area renovation, embellishment, and reconstruction projects, including renovating and rebuilding old apartment buildings to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, urban embellishment and sustainable development of the Capital.
Focus resources on reviewing and eliminating temporary and rudimentary houses and minimizing semi-permanent houses; supporting poor and near-poor households to build, repair, and upgrade existing degraded and damaged houses to ensure 3 solids (hard foundation, solid frame - wall, solid roof) suitable to the actual conditions of the locality.
Review and adjust planning to allocate and supplement land funds to invest in building social housing synchronously with trade union institutions to serve housing needs for workers and laborers in industrial parks and export processing zones, in which priority is given to developing social housing for rent and for lease-purchase.
In the period 2021-2030, strive to develop 255 million m2 of housing floor space, equivalent to about 1,821,700 houses, raising the city's average housing area target to at least 40 m2 of floor space/person.
| STT | Target | Housing development goals according to Decision No. 3627/QD-UBND dated October 3, 2022 | Adjusting targets to 2030 | Expected targets by 2035 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Average housing area in the whole city (m2 floor area/person) | 32 | Minimum 40 | Minimum 45 |
| 2 | Reasons for adjustment | Due to changes in GRDP forecast, population to 2030 according to the proposal of the Capital's overall plan with a 100-year vision | ||
In the period 2031-2035, strive to complete about 127.5 million m2 of housing floor space to create development space for projects in the period 2026-2030, raising the average housing area of the whole city to at least 45 m2 of floor space/person.
By 2030, strive to increase the proportion of solid and semi-solid houses throughout the city (including urban and rural areas) to 100%, no longer having unstable and rudimentary houses.
| STT | Content | The CTPTN target was approved in Decision No. 3627/QD-UBND dated October 3, 2022 | Target adjustment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ratio of permanent and semi-permanent houses (%) | Urban areas reach 100%, rural areas reach 90% | 100% |
| 2 | Ratio of unstable and rudimentary houses (%) | Complete the removal of temporary and rudimentary houses | 0% |
| 3 | Reasons for adjustment | Merge solid and semi-solid housing targets to synchronize housing statistical surveys (General Population and Housing Census and Interim Census) of the General Statistics Office. | |
Regarding social housing, in the period 2021-2030, strive to develop at least 144,000 units (about 24,000 units in the period 2021-2025 and at least 120,000 units in the period 2026-2030). In the period 2021-2035, complete at least 500,000 units.
The purpose of using social housing is diversified and expanded, using multiple purposes, flexible conversion between types of social housing, commercial housing, resettlement housing serving urban reconstruction, public housing and social housing for rent through the City Development Investment Fund (implementing the function of the City's National Housing Fund) according to Decree 302/2025/ND-CP of the Government.
Regarding the renovation and reconstruction of apartment buildings, the city strives to complete the renovation and reconstruction of old apartment buildings that have been inspected and are subject to demolition according to housing law, complete about 1.5 million m2 of floor space for renovation and reconstruction of apartment buildings, equivalent to about 20,000 apartments. The city continues to implement the renovation and reconstruction of apartment buildings subject to demolition for renovation and reconstruction according to regulations and other apartment buildings and apartment buildings that are feasible and meet the conditions for implementation according to regulations, striving to complete the renovation, embellishment, and reconstruction of urban areas for all 2,160 apartment buildings by 2035.
