The National Assembly passed Resolution 201/2025/QH15 on piloting specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development, effective from July 1, 2025.
According to Article 5 of Resolution 201/2025/QH15, the mechanism for assigning investors and approving investment policies and assigning investors not to go through bidding for investment projects to build social housing and housing for the People's Armed Forces that do not use public investment capital is as follows:
(1) Based on the approved housing development program and plan or urban and rural planning or the location of the land has been determined to develop social housing and housing for the People's Armed Forces, the assignment of investors is carried out as follows:
- In case the project has been approved for investment policy, investment approval or has equivalent legal documents, the competent state agency assigning the investor shall not go through bidding.
In case the social housing construction investment project has issued an invitation to interest and bidding documents to select investors but by July 1, 2025, there are no results of the assessment of the documents of interested investors, the Provincial People's Committee shall decide to continue to select investors according to the provisions of the law on bidding or assign investors according to the provisions of Resolution 201/2025/QH15;
- In case the project has not been approved for investment policy, investment approval or does not have equivalent legal documents, the competent state agency approving the investment policy shall at the same time assign the investor not to go through bidding.
(2) The authority to assign investors, approve investment policies and assign investors without auction is regulated as follows:
- The provincial People's Committee assigns the investor or approves the investment policy and assigns the investor of the social housing construction investment project according to the provisions of Point (1), except for the case specified in Point b of this Clause;
- The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Public Security assigned the investor or approved the investment policy and assigned the investor of the project to invest in building houses to the People's Armed Forces as prescribed in (1) after being unified by the provincial People's Committee in writing the location of the land area to invest in building houses for the People's Armed Forces;
- Provincial People's Committees, Ministries of National Defense, and Ministries of Public Security are not decentralized or authorized to the above authority.
(3) Conditions for assigning investors as investors must meet the conditions for real estate business organizations according to the provisions of the law on real estate business.
In case 2 or more investors register as investors, the priority criteria for assigning investors include: experience in implementing housing construction investment projects; financial capacity to implement the project; other criteria as prescribed by the Government.
(4) Procedures for assigning investors, approving investment policies and assigning investors without bidding to replace investment policy approval procedures and investor selection procedures according to the provisions of the law on investment and other relevant legal provisions.
The decision to assign the investor, the decision to approve the investment policy and the investor not through the bidding is the basis for land allocation, land lease, and allowing the change of land use purpose.
Thus, Resolution 201/2025/QH15 stipulates land allocation without bidding to investors in social housing construction in cases where investment policies have been approved and investment approvals have been approved.
In case the investment policy or investment approval has not been approved, the competent state agency approving the investment policy shall at the same time assign the investor not to go through bidding.
