Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has just signed and issued Resolution No. 201/2025/QH15 on a number of specific mechanisms and policies for social housing development.
This Resolution applies to agencies, units, enterprises, organizations and individuals related to the development, management, use and ownership of social housing.
The National Housing Fund is a state financial fund outside the budget, with legal status, operating not for profit.
The national housing fund includes: a central housing fund established by the Government, a local housing fund established by the provincial People's Committee.
According to the resolution, based on the method of determining the selling price, rental price of social housing and standard profit according to the provisions of the law on housing, self-built investors, hired consultants with sufficient capacity for construction activities for examination before the investor approves the selling price and rental price of social housing.
The determination of the selling price and rental price of social housing is carried out for one or a number of works of a social housing construction investment project according to the implementation phase or according to the investment phase, each component project or the entire project.
After the construction is completed and put into use, the investor is responsible for conducting an audit and settlement of construction investment costs according to the provisions of law, and sending them to a specialized agency under the Provincial People's Committee to check the selling price and rental price of social housing.
In case the selling price and rental price of social housing according to the audit and settlement are higher than the selling price and rental price of social housing signed by the investor, the investor is not allowed to collect additional differences from buyers and renters of social housing.
In case of lower interest, the investor must return the difference to the buyer or lessee for social housing.
For provinces and centrally run cities that are rearranged, based on the scope of administrative units of the province or centrally run city where the project is located before the time of rearrangement to determine housing conditions for subjects eligible to buy or rent social housing according to the provisions of the Housing Law.
In case the beneficiary of the social housing support policy is a person who is not yet entitled to a social housing support policy as prescribed by the law on housing with a workplace far from his/her place of residence, the condition for housing to be eligible to buy or rent-purchase social housing is not to buy or rent-purchase social housing, not to own a house or has a house of his/her own but far from the workplace.
Based on the actual conditions of the locality, the People's Committee at the provincial level shall specify in detail the cases where there is a house under its ownership but far from the workplace, it is entitled to social housing support policies.
This Resolution is implemented for 5 years from June 1, 2025.
