On January 19, records in the Xuyen Tam canal area, near the inter-ward bridge (Gia Dinh ward), a series of houses have been partially or completely dismantled.
Mr. Ho Van Hong (60 years old, Gia Dinh ward) said that his family has dismantled a part of the house and handed over about 100 m2 of land for the project. The remaining area, he is waiting for the Ward People's Committee to guide and issue a repair permit to stabilize life.
According to Mr. Hong, the Xuyen Tam canal renovation project is being implemented with many flexible compensation, support and resettlement policies, ensuring the rights of Ho Chi Minh City residents.
We hope the project will be accelerated and completed soon so that the area can be renovated spaciously and have a better living environment. When there is a road along the canal, a clean and beautiful landscape, the land value will definitely increase, creating favorable conditions for people to trade and do business" - Mr. Hong shared.
Right next to Mr. Hong's house, about 5 houses have been completely dismantled, and the homeowners have moved to another place. Some households hire workers to dismantle foundations, salvage iron and steel, and construction materials.
Along alley 153 Dien Bien Phu (Gia Dinh ward), interspersed with houses that have not been relocated, many have been dismantled, leaving only piles of broken bricks.
However, according to records, along Xuyen Tam canal, there are still hundreds of houses that have not been relocated due to not reaching an agreement on compensation and support plans.
Xuyen Tam canal is nearly 9 km long, connecting from the Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe canal to the Vam Thuat river, flowing through An Nhon wards (former Go Vap district), Gia Dinh, Binh Thanh and Binh Loi Trung wards (former Binh Thanh district).
The Xuyen Tam canal renovation project includes a main route of about 6.7 km long and 3 sub-branches (Binh Loi, Binh Trieu, Cau Son canals) with a total length of about 2.2 km.
The total investment of the project is more than 17,000 billion VND, of which compensation, support and resettlement costs account for about 14,000 billion VND. The project needs to recover land from more than 2,230 households and organizations.
In Binh Thanh district in the past alone, out of a total of 2,078 households subject to land recovery, there were 314 households in Binh Loi Trung ward, 872 households in Gia Dinh ward and 892 households in Binh Thanh ward.
Currently, all 3 construction packages of the project have been started. The Compensation and Site Clearance Board of Binh Thanh district said that it is accelerating the payment of compensation money, striving to hand over clean land in the second quarter of 2026.
According to functional agencies, compensation work in the past time has encountered some difficulties due to many cases of buying, selling, transferring, and donating land and houses with handwritten papers and forms; problems in determining rental prices, social housing rental prices, and minimum resettlement rates...
To remove difficulties, recently the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has assigned the Department of Construction to urgently complete the repair of apartments serving resettlement before March 30, 2026, in order to soon hand over to people to stabilize their lives.
In addition, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Agriculture and Environment is assigned to regularly monitor and update the project progress; guide localities to implement temporary residence for households arranged for resettlement and social housing, ensuring compliance with regulations and practical suitability.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee also requested the Ho Chi Minh City Civil and Industrial Construction Investment Project Management Board to accelerate the progress of the social housing project at No. 4 Phan Chu Trinh, Binh Thanh ward, in order to soon create a resettlement housing fund to serve the Xuyen Tam canal renovation project.
Xuyen Tam canal will dredge the canal bed 3.5 m deep, expanding the cross-section from 20 - 30 m; build a synchronous wastewater and rainwater collection system to improve the environment and limit pollution.
The two banks of the canal will form a road 6 m wide on each side, including two lanes, sidewalks 3 - 4 m wide, combined with parks, green trees and lighting systems.
Ho Chi Minh City aims to complete the entire Xuyen Tam canal renovation project in 2028.
