Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just issued a plan to arrange neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas in the area.
The city currently has 5,947 neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas belonging to 168 commune-level administrative units.
Localities will implement a 10-step process to complete the arrangement and reorganization of these units before July 2, 2026.
Step 1: The commune-level People's Committee shall base on the current status and standards of household size to develop a plan to arrange and reorganize neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas; and at the same time seek opinions from the Standing Committee of the Party Committee at the same level.
The content includes the expected number of neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas to be reduced, kept unchanged or remaining after arrangement; plans to arrange non-specialized personnel; the number of personnel to continue to be arranged and stop participating in work and plans to resolve related regimes and policies. Along with that, commune-level People's Committees proactively develop draft arrangement projects.
Step 2: After having the policy of the Standing Committee of the Commune Party Committee, the Commune People's Committee sends the plan to the Department of Home Affairs for synthesis and development of the overall plan for the whole city. Completion deadline before June 2, 2026.
Step 3: Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee submits to the Party Committee of the City People's Committee to report to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee for consideration and approval of the overall plan for arranging neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas throughout the area. Completion deadline before June 10, 2026.
Step 4: After the overall plan is approved by the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee, the commune-level People's Committee completes the arrangement project according to management authority. Implementation time from June 10 to before June 13, 2026.
Step 5: Commune-level People's Committees organize to collect people's opinions on the project to arrange neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas in the area. Implementation time is from June 13 to before June 18, 2026.
Step 6: Commune-level People's Committees summarize, receive, and explain people's opinions; complete dossiers according to regulations to submit to the People's Council of the same level for consideration. Implementation time from June 18 to before June 21, 2026.
Step 7: The commune-level People's Committee submits to the People's Council of the same level for consideration and approval of a resolution on the establishment, arrangement, and reorganization of neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas. Implementation time is from June 21 to before June 22, 2026.
Step 8: The commune-level People's Committee shall arrange non-specialized personnel and people participating in activities in neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas.
The selection must ensure publicity, objectivity, and standards; prioritizing people with capacity to mobilize the masses, prestige, experience and meeting the requirements of digital transformation at the grassroots level.
Step 9: Commune-level People's Committees implement regimes and policies for non-specialized personnel who stop participating in work due to the arrangement and reorganization of neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, and residential areas. Implementation time is from June 22 to before June 30, 2026.
Step 10: The commune-level People's Committee reports to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee (through the Department of Home Affairs) on the results of arranging neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, residential areas and the situation of arranging and using non-specialized personnel. Completion deadline before July 2, 2026.
According to regulations, neighborhoods must have 700 or more households; hamlets, villages, and residential areas must have 500 or more households.
For special areas such as Thanh An commune, Con Dao special zone or areas with fragmented terrain, difficult traffic, and dispersed population, the minimum scale is applied lower. Specifically, neighborhoods must have 350 or more households, while hamlets, villages, and residential areas must have at least 250 households.
