Yesterday, at the National Conference on removing difficulties and obstacles and promoting the development of social housing, the Prime Minister raised the issue very correctly and accurately: "The construction of social housing does not change or changes very slowly".
"Why haven't businesses done it yet, perhaps because the government has not dared to assign work? Can it be directly assigned to businesses without needing to go through bidding, as long as it ensures publicity, transparency, prevention and control of corruption, negativity, and waste? If bidding, it must be substantial, not formal, green air force, red army, avoiding the situation where the process is very long, time-consuming and does not bring anything," the head of the Government questioned.
Receiving words is like a release from the heart. Representatives of businesses have spoken directly, told their own problems and especially had practical recommendations and solutions. For example, Vingroup Corporation proposed: The Prime Minister allows localities to appoint bids and investors. At the same time, it will allow localities to shorten procedures or do it in parallel. For example, planning and construction procedures can be done at the same time, which will shorten the time a lot". Or Becamex proposed a preferential lending program with a long period of time and fixed interest rates. This is very necessary for both home buyers and investors.
The major reason why many localities are slow or do not implement social housing is that businesses, even if they really want to invest, have to go through a "procedural forest" or regulations related to bidding, causing businesses to not make a profit when offering low-priced housing products, suitable for the needs of a large number of workers and laborers.
Removing difficulties must start with simplifying procedures and creating open policy mechanisms. Recalling at the previous Conference, when working with state-owned enterprises, the Prime Minister said: "We have all in our hands, we have land, mechanisms, policies... but we cannot turn the situation around, so we rely on who, if we don't do it, who will do it". At the same time, the Prime Minister raised the issue with the requirement that state management must create for businesses to implement.
Yesterday, businesses have "reserved" the Government to create "green channels" in mechanisms to participate more strongly in social housing. Solutions, recommendations and proposals will be considered and considered in the coming time. However, at the present time, the knots have opened, true to the spirit of "only discussing work", implement immediately.
Social housing is identified as a growth driver. The initiative of both the Government and businesses at yesterday's Conference was a breakthrough, to achieve the target of 1 million social housing units on time.
