On November 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Central Steering Committee for the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide, chaired the first meeting of the Steering Committee.
In his concluding remarks, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to create movements, trends, and organize festivals and campaigns, working with all our hearts for the poor and those who have contributed to the revolution to promote the completion of the set goals.
The head of the Government pointed out that, up to now, the average income per capita has exceeded 4,300 USD, the scale of Vietnam's economy is nearly 500 billion USD, there is no reason for people to live in temporary, dilapidated houses.
The Prime Minister requested the establishment of a Steering Committee at the commune level, headed by a Party Secretary, to be completed before November 30, 2024, and to hold monthly meetings to review, inspect, and urge work.
Regarding the motto and responsibility of localities in mobilizing support and resolving the number of households arising, the Prime Minister pointed out that this is the responsibility of localities, and it is necessary to promote the spirit of self-reliance, proactiveness, creativity, and efforts to mobilize resources for implementation, without relying on the Central Government.
Regarding land, the principle is that there are no disputes and the work under the authority of which level will be resolved by that level; diversify resources and labor (including military and police forces), call for support from the community, clans... and use them most effectively.
The Prime Minister agreed that from today, the support level for removing temporary and dilapidated houses will be increased to 60 million VND/newly built house (currently 50 million VND) and 30 million VND/repaired house (currently 25 million VND); along with the state budget, it is necessary to encourage forms of socialization.
The Ministry of Construction urgently researches and designs a number of typical housing models, ensuring technical requirements, quality, efficiency, suitability with culture, customs, practices and characteristics of each locality and region, and appropriate local adjustments.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Finance to take the lead in proposing, arranging, and providing guidance on the state budget; requiring the use of funds from the 5% savings in state budget expenditures and housing support funds from the two national target programs to ensure convenience and speed, eliminating the "ask-give" mechanism, and preventing loss, waste, and negativity.
The Ethnic Committee urges, guides, and inspects localities to resolve the shortage of residential land, housing, production land, and domestic water, ensuring support is completed by 2025.
People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities focus on synchronously, drastically and effectively implementing housing support for people with meritorious services and the emulation movement "Joining hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide in 2025".
Implement housing support for people with revolutionary contributions, poor households, and near-poor households to ensure the correct targets, standards, and norms, without overlapping with support activities from the state budget, in compliance with procedures and processes in accordance with legal regulations, and to prevent loss, waste, corruption, and negativity.
The Prime Minister requested the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front to directly implement and guide the Vietnam Fatherland Front at all levels to receive support from organizations and individuals to implement support for eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses through the Fund for the Poor.
Conduct supervision of the implementation of housing support policies for people with revolutionary contributions; inspect and supervise housing support for poor and near-poor households nationwide.
