On May 28, information from the People's Committee of Lao Cai province, the unit has just issued new regulations on the distance from residence to workplace for cases of being able to rent official housing, in order to tighten management and ensure proper arrangement of subjects according to the provisions of the 2023 Housing Law.
According to the decision, cadres, civil servants, public employees and subjects eligible to rent official residences when coming to work in remote, isolated, particularly difficult areas, ethnic minority and mountainous areas or land border communes and wards must have a distance from their residence to their workplace of 10 km or more to be considered for arranging official residences.
For the remaining areas in the province, the minimum distance is regulated to be 30 km or more.
The distance is determined according to the shortest road connecting the place of permanent residence and the place of work at the time of reviewing the lease application.
The regulation also clearly states that individuals who already own houses with an average floor area of over 20 m2/person and the distance from the house to the workplace is lower than the prescribed level will not be eligible to rent official residences.
Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Construction to preside over and coordinate with the People's Committees of communes and wards and relevant units to implement; periodically summarize and report to the Provincial People's Committee and the Ministry of Construction according to regulations.
Tenants in public housing must be responsible for the accuracy of the distance information declared in the housing registration dossier.
The decision takes effect from June 7, 2026, replacing Decision No. 12/2025/QD-UBND dated January 24, 2025 of Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee on management and use of public housing in the province.
