On September 22, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Head of the Central Steering Committee on housing policy and real estate market, chaired the first meeting of the Steering Committee.
In his concluding remarks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that in order to contribute to removing difficulties and developing the real estate market, institutional and infrastructure breakthroughs have been, are and will be promoted.
The Prime Minister said that the spirit is to report to competent authorities to continue issuing appropriate documents for resolution; at the same time, relevant laws have been and are being amended.
At the same time, promote the development of strategic infrastructure to contribute to reducing input costs for the real estate sector, reducing costs, increasing competitiveness, and increasing people's access to housing.
In addition to the very basic results achieved, the Prime Minister emphasized that we must strive to keep commercial housing prices at a reasonable level, suitable for market nature, suitable for the Vietnamese economy, suitable for people's income; the goal is to have favorable and suitable housing conditions, contributing to improving the material and spiritual life of the people.
According to the Prime Minister, the credit package of VND145 trillion for social housing loans has not been disbursed much.
Affirming that the development of the real estate and social housing market is a big problem, the representative of the country and the people is very important, the Prime Minister clearly stated the viewpoint that there must be many comprehensive, comprehensive and inclusive, open and effective solutions.
This requires close coordination between the central and local governments, the State and businesses and people, between fiscal policy, monetary policy and other policies.
In the coming time, the Prime Minister proposed that, in addition to the regulation of reserving at least 20% of the commercial housing project area for social housing, study and apply reserving 20% of the social housing project area for commercial housing.
The Prime Minister requested solutions to reduce real estate prices, increase supply to meet supply and demand, through resolving backlog projects, promoting social housing, reducing land prices, reducing costs, solving infrastructure problems in transportation, electricity, water, telecommunications, etc.
Regarding land prices, the Prime Minister requested to strengthen the management and regulation role of the state; effectively use land; simple, open procedures, reduce pre-inspections, focus on post-inspections.
Study new regulations on the threshold of income allowed for purchasing social housing, and assign localities to flexibly adjust.
The State Bank studies mechanisms and policies related to lending interest rates, appropriate lending time, and favorable procedures; has appropriate policies and sanctions for banks that do well and do not do well; banks continue to promote the spirit of responsibility, national love, compatriotism and apply science and technology to reduce costs.
Localities balance their budgets to invest in infrastructure and support lending interest rates. The Ministries will soon complete the legal framework and procedures to establish a National Housing Fund, to be completed in September.
The Ministry of Construction studies to help the Government issue a resolution, assigning a number of capable, dedicated and talented enterprises to implement a number of social housing projects according to the principle of harmonizing the interests of the State, people and enterprises.
