On May 29, 2025, the National Assembly passed Resolution 201/2025/QH15 on piloting specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development. Including housing conditions for buying and renting social housing.
For provinces and centrally run cities that are rearranged, based on the scope of administrative units of the province or centrally run city where the project is located before the time of rearrangement to determine housing conditions for subjects eligible to buy or rent social housing according to the provisions of the Housing Law.
In case the beneficiary of the social housing support policy is a person who is not yet entitled to a social housing support policy as prescribed by the law on housing with a workplace far from his/her place of residence, the condition for housing to be eligible to buy or rent-purchase social housing is not to buy or rent-purchase social housing, not to own a house or has a house of his/her own but far from the workplace.
Based on the actual conditions of the locality, the People's Committee at the provincial level shall specify in detail the cases where there is a house under its ownership but far from the workplace, it is entitled to social housing support policies.
Resolution 201/2025/QH15 takes effect from June 1, 2025, except for the cases specified in Articles 4, 5, 2 and 3, Article 7, Article 8, Clauses 1, 2, 6 and 7, Article 12 of this Resolution, taking effect from July 1, 2025.
Resolution 201/2025/QH15 is implemented for 5 years.
