Deputy Minister of Public Security Lt. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Lam said that in recent years, the ministry has spearheaded fundraising campaigns and collaborated with localities to build more than 28,600 homes, along with numerous schools and educational facilities, at a total cost of over 1.4 trillion VND (about 53.8 million USD).
A Nam Dinh leader has demanded enhancing communications campaign to raise public awareness of the significance of the programme, encouraging the engagement of individuals and organisations.
With active participation from the entire political system and widespread public support, the programme on substandard housing elimination has helped foster social solidarity and enhance rural development efforts.
Under the plan, households building new homes will receive 60 million VND per unit, while those repairing existing houses will be granted 30 million VND per unit.
The northern province of Bac Giang has emerged as the country's leader in the campaign to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in 2024, heard a conference to review the local emulation and commendation work on December 31.
Bac Giang, a northern province with a vast area and a poverty rate close to the national average, is striving to finish upgrading all local houses classified as makeshift and dilapidated ones by the end of November 2025.
The southernmost province of Ca Mau is striving to complete the construction of and repair for nearly 4,000 temporary and dilapidated houses for people who rendered service to the nation, poor and near poor households, and ethnic minority families across the locality.
About 315,000 poor and near-poor households across the countries are facing housing problems and in need of support, according to the Ministry of Construction (MoC).
Directive No. 40-CT/TW of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat on strengthening the Party's leadership towards social policy credit has served as a new wind that creates breakthroughs for social policy credit.
As many as 9,000 poor and near-poor households in Ho Chi Minh City that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive monthly relief payments of 1 million VND (42 USD) each for three months, starting in April, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Mekong Delta province of Long An has been allocated 28 billion VND (1.2 million USD) to carry out the national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction in 2019, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
