On May 24, the National Assembly discussed the draft Resolution of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development.
Delegate Pham Van Hoa said that he was very unanimous in reducing administrative procedures. Reducing procedures is a matter of course, but the core thing is that the quality of the project must be guaranteed.
"There is a paradox that in the past, commercial housing was built very well but social housing was not built well and quickly deteriorated. I suggest that the drafting committee study regulations on how to make construction quality more stable and better," said the delegate.
According to the delegate, another notable case is that housing for workers, especially civil servants and public employees, is rented for living, but then rented and then not rented to others.
The delegate stated that this is a paradox and this has happened before. The drafting committee should pay attention to and have special sanctions for these cases.
"The approval is not careful, having a house is still for rent, after a while renting it to someone else to get the difference, that is not the right thing to do," said the delegate.
Delegate Nguyen Thi Thu Ha (Quang Ninh Delegation) said that from local practice, there are still some huge problems that if not resolved, it will be very difficult to complete the target of 1 million social housing units.
The delegate cited that the current housing demand of cadres and workers, including workers in the coal industry, armed forces, and the Northeast Corporation of the Ministry of National Defense, is very large.
However, the regulations on housing, management and operation of standards and regulations applied to this model do not have specific content, so Quang Ninh province currently has to apply and implement investment in building a collective housing model or a shifthouse in the coal industry.
The Housing Law adds a chapter on worker accommodation invested in construction in industrial parks. However, for the type of collective housing in the coal industry, it cannot be applied according to the Housing Law, because the investment in construction is arranged for workers to rent and build on commercial service land other than residential land in industrial parks.
Therefore, the delegate proposed to consider and add subjects such as corporations, state-owned corporations or enterprises with many employees to invest in building accommodation and construction on commercial service land for workers and laborers to rent and enjoy preferential regimes such as worker accommodation projects in industrial parks.
The delegate proposed to add a provision for investors in social housing construction to be invested in construction using financial resources of state-owned corporations and groups.
Agreeing with this opinion, delegate Phan Duc Hieu (Thai Binh Delegation) said that the current regulation is to build accommodation for workers but must be in industrial parks.
"Now, how can mining enterprises in Quang Ninh block the whole province as an industrial park while the needs of workers still exist.
I suggest boldly removing the mandatory requirement of being in industrial parks, even boldly handing them over to pilot provinces, provinces that have real needs and real circumstances should hand them over themselves," the delegate suggested, saying that the current regulations are very strict.
The delegate also mentioned that there were cases where enterprises bought social housing and accommodation for workers, they gave workers a place to live but they did not live in all of them but were not allowed to let workers from other enterprises live there.
Emphasizing that this is a great waste, the delegate said that if it is a pilot, this condition should be allowed to be expanded.
