Three social housing projects in Thu Duc city, Binh Chanh district, with a scale of more than 1,300 apartments will start construction at the end of April, helping workers and low-income people to easily access.
Information was announced by the Department of Construction of Ho Chi Minh City on April 19. The implementation of the projects is a part of the plan to build low-cost houses so that workers, workers and low-income people can buy, in order to replace old apartments, houses on canals, boarding houses… on locality.
The dormitory of workers on the 9th street, quarter 5, Linh Xuan ward, Thu Duc city. Image:Le Tuyet
According to the plan, two projects in Thu Duc city, including accommodation for workers in Linh Trung Export Processing Zone 2 (Linh Trung ward) and a social housing project in a residential area in Long Truong ward, will start construction on the 25th. and 4/27. The total land area for these two projects is about 19,400 m2, with a scale of 1,086 cheap apartments.
In Binh Chanh district, the social housing apartment project in Nguyen Son housing area (Binh Hung commune) started on April 26 with 242 apartments, total construction area of nearly 3,700 m2.
In addition to the above three works, at the end of April, Ho Chi Minh City also broke ground on the project to renovate and rebuild Thanh Da apartments (lots 4 to 6) in Binh Thanh district with 1,750 apartments. These are plots built before 1975, degradation serious and planned to be renovated and redone by the city for many years.
Statistics from 2016-2020 period, Ho Chi Minh City has developed more than 1.2 million square meters of social housing, housing more than 66,000 people. In which, 19 projects with nearly 15,000 apartments, the highest assessed construction investment value is 15.5 million per m2. However, during this period, only one project of worker accommodation was put into use with 756 rooms, meeting 4,600 accommodation (reaching 13% of the plan).
According to a survey by the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation, about 1.3 million workers and workers in the city have housing needs. Of these, only nearly 40,000 workers (accounting for 3%) live in accommodation and dormitories built in industrial zones. Most workers live in motel rooms with an average area of 14 m2 each, the average rent is 1.6 million VND per month and there are about 4 people living together. Workers spend 10-15% of their income to pay for accommodation.
At the meeting with voters at the end of last year, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Phan Van Mai acknowledged that the city welcomed a large number of workers, contributing to the construction and development of the city, but taking care of them was not properly invested. level. Soon, the city will build one million cheap houses replacing old apartments, houses on canals, boarding houses… for easy access by workers and low-income people.
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