These days, the new resettlement apartment at Ngoc Long apartment building of Mr. Nguyen Huu Su's family, 60 years old, in Chanh Hung ward, Ho Chi Minh City, has been cleaned up so that 9 members can move in to live.
Mr. Su's family has waited for many months to hand over the land to the authorities. Attached to the riverside land since childhood, he could not hide his sadness and worry when leaving his old residence. However, Mr. Su's worries gradually subsided when he witnessed the apartment building being spacious and clean. Previously, his family lived close to the riverbank, near the garbage dump, so the environment was polluted and smelly. Now, thanks to the appropriate compensation policy, his family has enough money to buy a 3-bedroom apartment. Although living in the apartment building has many differences, not as convenient for business as on-site houses, Mr. Su said that his family complies with the city's policy for the common good, expecting the Doi canal route to soon be clear and clean like Vo Van Kiet Avenue.
Sharing the same joy, Ms. Huynh Thi Kim, 73 years old, in Chanh Hung ward, also moved to a new apartment at 481 Ba Dinh apartment building. According to Ms. Kim, the worry of house collapse and fire and explosion in her old residence is no longer there. She is excited because the timely compensation policy helps her family feel secure and stabilize their lives.
Mr. Vuong Chi Hung - Vice Chairman of Chanh Hung Ward People's Committee - said that the handover of resettlement apartments is an important milestone of the project, showing the government's concern in ensuring social security for people whose land is recovered. In the coming time, the ward requests units to continue to coordinate, accelerate the repair of the remaining apartments and complete handover procedures.
Ho Chi Minh City is focusing efforts to remove bottlenecks in site clearance at key canal and ditch renovation projects such as Xuyen Tam canal or the North bank of Doi canal. Localities with projects passing through are also making efforts to synchronously implement solutions to contribute to unblocking this bottleneck.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction informed that in the period from now to 2030, the city will implement 44 urban embellishment projects along canals and ditches. The total number of houses along canals and ditches expected to be relocated is 23,429 units, with a total investment of more than 166,000 billion VND. In Binh Dong, Chanh Hung and Phu Dinh 3 wards in District 8, which previously accounted for more than 65% of the total number of houses to be relocated throughout the city, equivalent to about 15,708 houses.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Infrastructure Construction Investment Project Management Board, the investor of the dredging, infrastructure construction, and environmental improvement project on the North bank of Doi canal, this project has more than 1,600 affected cases. Among them, Phu Dinh ward recorded 804 cases and Chanh Hung ward recorded 800 cases. To date, localities have handed over more than 1,450 sites, and there are currently about 150 cases that have not been completed.
