Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee organized a reception for representatives of households with complaints, petitions, and reflections related to Thu Thiem New Urban Area (KDTM) on December 29, 2025.
At the reception, leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee frankly acknowledged the shortcomings pointed out by the Government Inspectorate in the project implementation process. In the spirit of receptiveness and serious compliance with inspection conclusions, the city government not only stopped at committing to overcome but also concretized them with practical policies for the people, most recently Decision No. 70 dated May 23, 2025 to amend and supplement previous policies, contributing to creating conditions for people to stabilize their lives.
Decision 70 continues to consider removing inadequacies and difficulties that are still inappropriate in the compensation, support and resettlement policy of KDTM due to prolonged implementation, and changes in the Land Law during implementation. At the same time, it partly resolves the frustrations, questions, and recommendations of people (low compensation and support prices, compensation and support money not enough to pay for apartment purchases, losing land and houses but still owing the State; after being cleared, there is still no stable housing, having to live in rented houses...).
Notably, Decision 70 has adjusted the deadline for calculating compensation and support from December 20, 2001 (date the City People's Committee issued Directive No. 34/2001/CT-UB on strengthening the management of land use purpose conversion, leveling, construction, purchase, sale, and transfer of illegal houses and land in Thu Thiem New Urban Area) to May 10, 2002 (date the City People's Committee issued land recovery decision).
In addition, price difference support is enjoyed from the policy of buying apartments calculated according to the number of m2 of apartments converted at a rate of 4.5% for agricultural land interspersed in residential land (ensuring not lower than the compensation and support value for pure agricultural land).
Cases of partial clearance, not meeting resettlement conditions but receiving price difference support enjoyed from resettlement policies for the area cleared as residential land. Previously, these cases were subject to partial clearance, not meeting resettlement conditions, so they were not converted to receive price difference support enjoyed from resettlement policies.
Decision 70 also adjusts and increases support levels to create conditions for people to stabilize their lives; minimize cases of debt for apartment purchases (low compensation and support value for land, architectural works... due to building houses on land with encroached origins; building houses after the time of compensation and support...).
Solve the sale of apartments at the cost of capital preservation (payment or 30-year depreciation lease) for cases where there are houses on recovered land but are not eligible for resettlement due to changing the land use purpose to residential land from May 10, 2002 onwards.
In particular, the policy in Decision 70 ensures that people have stable housing after relocation when cases subject to adjustment and supplementation, previously chose the method of receiving price difference support money enjoyed from the resettlement policy (no resettlement registration, self-sufficient for new accommodation) are now refunded the received support money and arising interest to receive apartments.
In addition, the city also considers selling apartments to cases with houses on recovered land but not meeting resettlement conditions due to self-conversion of land use purposes into residential land after May 10, 2002 or later.
Leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ho Chi Minh City said that from 2018, competent authorities of Ho Chi Minh City have made efforts to consider and maximize the application of regulations to issue new policies or adjust and supplement policies that are inadequate, no longer suitable to the actual situation, or contents that were previously resolved in accordance with regulations but are actually unreasonable, in order to ensure that people have a new stable place to live and a life equal to or better than the old place, ensuring the legitimate rights of people.
