In 2026, the Provincial Construction Investment Project Management Board is preparing to build more resettlement areas to relocate households living in areas frequently affected by natural disasters, especially communes downstream of the Ba River, where prolonged flooding often occurs, threatening the safety of life and property.
During the storms and floods in November 2025, many areas in the province were heavily damaged, especially the riverside and low-lying areas at high risk.
Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee has directed the implementation of urgent projects, investing in 15 projects to arrange and relocate residents in the 2025–2026 period in 13 communes and wards. When completed, thousands of households affected by natural disasters will be arranged with new safe and long-term stable housing.
Currently, localities are focusing on accelerating investment progress, site clearance, creating consensus and strengthening people's trust.
In previous years, dozens of households in Suoi Can village (Phu Thien commune, Gia Lai province) living near hilly areas often faced the risk of landslides, flash floods and flooding in the rainy and storm season. The prolonged situation of division and isolation not only affects life but also directly threatens people's lives.
Faced with that reality, functional sectors established and approved the Suoi Can resettlement area project to ensure safe and stable long-term housing for people.
Suoi Can resettlement area is built next to a field of sweet potatoes and sugarcane of thousands of hectares. Convenient transportation infrastructure, 38 houses built spaciously and solidly have helped households soon stabilize their lives.
Ms. Kpa H'Lui (29 years old), a resident of the resettlement area, shared: "Being supported by the State, the Agricultural Service Center, the Women's Union and philanthropists to build houses, people are very happy and excited to return to their new homes.
In the resettlement area, houses are spacious, close to production land, so people's lives are gradually improving. Workers in the village have jobs all year round: in the sugarcane and sweet potato season, they work as hired laborers with an income of about 200,000 VND/day; in the coffee season, many people go to commune areas to harvest to have additional income to cover living expenses and raise their children to study.
Currently, the work of arranging and arranging residents to avoid natural disasters is being implemented synchronously by Gia Lai province.
