Renting for the wrong purpose
The Hanoi City Inspectorate has just announced the conclusion of the inspection of the management and use of the first floor of the Workers' Housing Area in Kim Chung Commune, managed and operated by Hanoi Housing Management and Development Company Limited.
According to the inspection conclusion, from 2010 to the end of 2019, the company has converted its designed function of a parking lot, electrical and water technical room, main hall to rent to organizations and individuals 56 points (about 10,000m2) for service business. The lease contract is valid for 3 years, priced at VND 33,000/m2/month (including VAT).
When the contract expired, the company did not report to the city to auction the right to lease the service business area but continued to sign for lease at the old price until 2019.
There are 6 units using the designed areas of the main hall, bicycle parking room, security room, waiting room, corridor, post office, and letter room that do not function properly. Hanoi Housing Management and Development Company Limited cannot provide a rental contract.
In mid-2017, the Hanoi Department of Construction requested the company to reclaim the leased points that were not in accordance with regulations. However, this has not been resolutely resolved by the relevant parties, leading to the time when the inspection was organized (quarter II/2024), there were still about 20 points that had not been recovered, and a decision had to be issued for enforcement.
From 2017 to April 2024, Hanoi Housing Management and Development Company Limited did not take measures to recover the debt within the contract term, did not take measures to recover the leased area, and still let the lessee use it, leading to a debt arising outside the lease contract of more than 8 billion VND (27 lease points), causing a loss of State budget revenue that cannot be recovered.
The City Inspectorate recommended that the City People's Committee direct the Chairman of Hanoi Housing Management and Development Company Limited, the Director of the Department of Construction, and the Chairman of Dong Anh District People's Committee to review responsibilities and take disciplinary action against relevant collectives and individuals.
The City Inspectorate has also invited the Internal Affairs Committee of the City Party Committee, the City Police, and the City People's Procuracy to analyze and evaluate the documents collected during the inspection process.
At the meeting, the agencies agreed to request the City Inspectorate to transfer the records and documents on the violations of Hanoi Housing Management and Development Company Limited to the Investigation Security Agency, City Police for investigation and handling according to regulations.
In August 2024, the City Inspectorate transferred information about the above behavior to the Investigation Security Agency, City Police.
"Sharing hands" to rent the first floor of workers' housing
Previously, in October 2023, Lao Dong Newspaper published a series of articles on the profiteering of workers' housing in Kim Chung (Dong Anh, Hanoi). At that time, reflecting to Lao Dong, Ms. Linh (name changed) said that in order to rent the first floor of D3 as a restaurant for her children in 2010, Ms. Linh's mother-in-law had to spend 150 million VND to Mr. Le Quang Oai (officer of the Housing Management Department, Social Housing Management and Development Enterprise at that time) in exchange for a handwritten document with a commitment to take care of this family's rental of D3.
"Considering to be rented stably for a long time, on October 31, 2018, the Housing Enterprise sent people down to lock the door. Only later did I realize that the house was rented to me by the house factory for the wrong purpose, said Ms. Linh.
Similar to Ms. Linh's family, 26 other small businesses also fell into trouble when they spent money to build a business location on the first floor of Kim Chung Workers' Housing Area (after spending a large sum of money to rent a house).
Not only did the enterprise subcontract the first floor area, some apartments were used for workers to rent in the form of "handcuffs, runs".
The fact that workers and laborers in Dong Anh want to rent workers' housing to settle down and stabilize their lives requires them to spend up to tens of millions of VND to " lend a hand" to the people of the Social Housing Management and Development Enterprise (under Hanoi Housing Management and Development Company Limited).
At that time, Hanoi Housing Management and Development Company Limited said that it will focus on directing the continued inspection, verification, consolidation of evidence, closely coordinating with Dong Anh District Police in providing relevant records, documents, and evidence to serve the verification and investigation work according to legal regulations, and will be urgent, serious, drastic, handling the violation as much as possible...
