Publicizing information on social housing that does not use trade union financial resources

Legal Consulting Office of Lao Dong Newspaper answers:

Points a, b, c, d, đ Clause 1, Article 34 of Decree 54/2026/ND-CP (effective from February 9, 2026) amending and supplementing Article 38 of Decree 100/2024/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Housing Law on development and management of social housing (amended and supplemented in Decree No. 261/2025/ND-CP) stipulating the order and procedures for selling, leasing, leasing social housing invested in construction according to projects and not using public investment capital, trade union financial sources as follows:

a) After 30 days from the start of the project, the investor of the social housing construction investment project is responsible for providing information related to the project for public announcement on the electronic information page of the Department of Construction, the People's Committee of the commune level in the locality where the project is located; posting at least once in the newspaper as the mouthpiece of the local government and announcing on the electronic information page of the investor (if any) or the real estate exchange of the investor (if any) for people to know, prepare dossiers to register to buy social housing and carry out monitoring and supervision.

Public information includes: Project name; project investor; project construction location; contact address, registration address; project implementation progress; project scale; number of apartments/houses (including: Number of apartments/houses for sale; apartment area; selling price (temporary) for each type of apartment/house; expected start time for receiving registration documents and other related content).

In case the information system and database on housing and the real estate market have been connected and exploited, publicize information about social housing construction investment projects on this system in accordance with the law on construction and management of information systems and databases on housing and the real estate market;

b) Before the time of starting to receive applications for social housing purchase, the investor publicly discloses information about the time of starting to receive and ending to receive applications for purchase, the number of apartments/houses for sale, apartment area, selling price of social housing on the information system, database on housing and real estate market and sends it to the local Department of Construction where the project is located for public disclosure on the electronic information page of the Department of Construction.

Information disclosure must be carried out at least 30 days before the time of starting to receive dossiers;

c) Based on information about social housing projects that has been publicized, households and individuals who need to submit applications to buy social housing to the project investor. Each household and individual who needs to buy social housing is not allowed to simultaneously register to buy social housing in multiple projects at the same time.

Subjects specified in Clause 10, Article 76 of the Housing Law must have confirmation of the subject from the People's Committee of the commune where the land is recovered and must clear and demolish houses according to the guidance form of the Minister of Construction. Within 07 days from the date of receiving the request for confirmation, the People's Committee of the commune shall carry out the confirmation of the subject.

The submission of dossiers is carried out in the form of direct, online or postal services or submitted to agencies, units, and businesses where the individual is working to summarize and send to the project investor.

The time to submit and receive dossiers is decided by the investor but is at least 30 days from the date of starting to receive dossiers;

d) Application documents for social housing purchase include: application form for social housing purchase according to Form No. 01 specified in Appendix II of this Decree; documents proving the subjects and conditions eligible for social housing support policies.

Documents proving the subjects and conditions eligible for social housing support policies are valid for 12 months, calculated from the time of confirmation. People registering to buy social housing must commit not to have received housing support policies and be responsible for ensuring the subjects and conditions eligible for social housing support policies at the time of signing the purchase and sale contract;

e) Within 10 days from the deadline for submitting dossiers, the investor is responsible for summarizing the list of social housing purchase registrations, which shows the personal information of the registrants and members of the household declared in the Social Housing Purchase Registration Application; send it to the Department of Construction of the project location to check whether social housing purchase registrants have enjoyed or have not enjoyed housing support policies according to the provisions of housing law. The Department of Construction is responsible for responding in writing within 10 days from the date of receiving the registration list.

The investor is responsible for reviewing, evaluating, summarizing the opinions of the Department of Construction and comparing them with the provisions of the law on housing to determine dossiers that meet the conditions to enjoy social housing support policies.

The investor is responsible for compiling and publicizing a list of dossiers that meet the conditions according to regulations and dossiers that do not meet the conditions at the project implementation location, the investor's electronic information page (if any) and at the investor's Real Estate Exchange (if any).

Within 30 days from the deadline for submitting dossiers, the investor is responsible for publicizing the List of dossiers that meet the conditions for purchasing social housing. For dossiers that do not meet the conditions, they should be returned and state the reasons within 15 days from the date of publicizing the list.

Thus, the disclosure of information about social housing projects that do not use trade union financial resources is regulated as above.