Lang Son: Nearly 300 new houses built for the poor
The Ministry of Public Security and authorities in the northern province of Lang Son on January 16 transferred 292 new houses for the poor in the border district of Loc Binh.
A family in Dong Buc commune in Loc Binh district in the northern province of Lang Son receives a new house that was built with support from the Public Security Ministry and the provincial authorities. (Photo: VNA)
Lang Son (VNA) – The Ministry of Public ♕Security and authorities in the northern province of Lang Son on January 16 transferred 292 new houses for the poor in the border district of Loc Binh.
Costing about 110 million VND (4,300 USD), each house has a living room and two bedrooms, with sufficient electricity and lighting facilities.
Phung Van Dam, a beneficiary i💫n Na Duong town, ღsaid his family are very happy to get the new home. Their old one was quite cramped and dilapidated.
Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Nguyen Ngoc Lam said that in response to the programme on eliminating makeshift and dilapidated houses, the ministry provided financial aid worth 20.44 billion VND for building 292 houses, or 70 million VND each. Meanwhile, the remaining fund comes from other sources mobilised by local authorities.
From now to April 30, the ministry and localඣ authorities 🍌will help to repair 101 substandard houses in Loc Binh district.
Lam informed that the ministry has assisted with the construction and repair of over 17,800 houses with a total cost exceeding 763 billion VND nationwide.
In 2024 alone, it offered support to build and repair more than 3,000 houses worth over 150 billion VND for poor households, policy beneficiary families, and those from ethnic minority groups across the country.
Vice ꧋Chairman of the Lang Son provincial People's Committee Luong Trong Quynh said that under the nationwide movement on eradicating makeshift and dilapidated houses, the province plans to build 951 new houses and repair 1,521 others. So far, 927 houses have been completed./.
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The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang strives to remove 6,000 makeshift and dilapidated houses in 2025, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Ha Thi Nga said at a launching ceremony for a programme in support of the housing efforts on January 16.
Leaders of the central province of Quang Binh have attended ground-breaking ceremonies of several houses for people with disadvantaged backgrounds as part of the movement to replace and upgrade temporary and dilapidated houses in the locality.
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